"Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character."

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Source : Charles Grandison Finney, George REDFORD (D.D.) (1851). “Lectures on systematic theology, embracing moral government, the atonement, etc. Revised, enlarged, and partly re-written by the Author ... Edited ... by G. Redford”, p.29

Charles Grandison Finney

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Agents Quotes

“The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.”

Source : Erving Goffman (2009). “Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity”, p.138, Simon and Schuster
“The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket.”
“Max Kozloff said to me one day, â€˜Youâ€™re not really a photographer. You do photography, but you do it for your own purposes â€“ your purposes are not the same as othersâ€™. Iâ€™m not quite sure what he meant, but I like that. I like the way he put it.”
“The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not of a great, but of a decaying society. Historians know that both phenomena were especially marked in the declining eras of the Roman Empire in the West and of its successor state, the Eastern or Byzantine Empire.”
“When the world makes no sense, go inside yourself, and listen carefully to your needs, until you understand once more.”
“If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.”

Source : "We Finally Found Out Why Rob Kardashian Skipped Kim And Kanye's Wedding" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. August 13, 2014.
“See Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.”

Source : George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.160
“There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system.”

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