"If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great difficulties in denouncing a particular person. Every unpleasant dog is only one of many, but we kick him because he comes in our way, and there is always some want of distributive justice in the kicking."

-- George Eliot

#Dog Quotes #Mean Quotes #People Quotes

“For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.”
“Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.”
“Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks.”

Source : Teju Cole (2011). “Open City: A Novel”, p.11, Random House
“I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”
“Atheistic evolutionists believe that nothing created everything - a scientific impossibility. It couldn't happen. So they redefine the word 'nothing' to mean 'something,' so that in their unthinking minds, they can justify their foolishness.”
“We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.”

Source : Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.447
“I'm not trying to denounce the visual past. It just seems impossible to me to be able to keep making the same image that I made six years ago.”
“I can make no apologies for following my heart.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gavin Rossdale from Sep 11, 2012

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