"Ethics is inescapable."

-- Peter Singer

“As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.”
“relationships. That's all there really is. There's your relationship with the dust that just blew in your face, or with the person who just kicked you end over end. ... You have to come to terms, to some kind of equilibrium, with those people around you, those people who care for you, your environment.”

Source : Leslie Marmon Silko, Ellen L. Arnold (2000). “Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko”, p.27, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“That's one of the tragedies of this life-that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.”

Source : "Fictional character: John D. Hackensacker III". "The Palm Beach Story", www.imdb.com. August 28, 1942.
“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”
“I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.”

Source : Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.244, Delacorte Press
“Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?”

Source : On being approached by the secretary of the Athenaeum, which he had been in the habit of using as a convenience on the way to his office; attributed
“It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
“May love be your guide in every moment of your life.”

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