"All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion."

-- Reinhold Niebuhr

#Coercion Quotes #Groups Quotes #Cooperation Quotes

“It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing.”

Source : John Braine (1975). “Writing a Novel”, McGraw-Hill Companies
“Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation”
“There are many excellent guitar players but I have to say Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton are still at the top! There are many imitators but very few genuine articles. There is so much more to playing than a fast blur of notes, like feeling and emotion from the soul. It's like punctuating a sentence and knowing when to lay back and not fill up all the space. Those are the things I tried to teach my son Tim when he began playing.”
“I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.”
“First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that.”
“How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind -- and like to beasts, a beastly life they lead, who naught attend save death when they are dead.”
“I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage.”
“This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of the domain tics that mar even allegedly popular works by Anglo-American philosophers.”

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