"Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness."

-- Aleister Crowley

#Independent Quotes #Greatness Quotes #People Quotes

“One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.”
“If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.”
“As long as you remember the person who loved you, and whom you still love, then you're making love endure.”
“I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.”
“I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready.”
“My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.”
“Not to give too big of a spoiler, but I never find myself thinking, for example, Oh, remember that crazy time I stumbled on that closeted Republican candidate's sex tape?”

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“We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it.”

Source : Shane Claiborne (2006). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical”, p.123, Harper Collins

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