"You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder."

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Source : "'A feeling of realistic optimism': An interview with Nadine Gordimer". Salmagundi, 113, 1997.

Nadine Gordimer

#Compassion Quotes #Regimes Quotes #Harder Quotes

“An exceptional life isn't the result of lucky breaks but excellent choices.”

Source : FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Apr 13, 2014
“All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.”

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“I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L.A. or New York. I live in Texas, and I go to hole-in-the-wall bars, so there's no paparazzi there.”
“When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.”
“The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of religion, it is true that fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.”
“There's something almost impossible about the criminal justice system when it comes to sexual assault cases. It immediately sets up a trial, where witnesses may have been drunk or maybe there were no witnesses and maybe there's no evidence.”

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“I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.”
“I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.”

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