"I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."

-- T. E. Lawrence

#People Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Artistic Quotes

“Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.”
“Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function”
“My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.”
“I almost had her." Curran nodded. "I heard. And you could've taken her, too." My voice came out flat. "Rub it in, why don't you." He grinned. "No time for that now, maybe later." I closed my eyes. There wouldn't be any later. "Are you imagining me rubbing it in?" he asked.”
“Don't say you're sorry, 'cause I'm not even breaking. You're not worth the time that this is taking.”
“As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison.”
“Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty!”
“What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's no longer much meaning in asking whose ax is bloodier. Evil, on evil, piled on evil. Was there any justification for what they did-or was there? We only know what that thing says, and that thing is a captive. The Asian radio has to say what will least displease it's government; ours has to say what will least displease our fine patriotic opinionated rabble, which is what, coincidentally, the government wants it to say anyhow, so where's the difference?”

Source : "A Canticle for Leibowitz". Book by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1960.

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