"In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil believed to be greater. And the tragedy is that we do not know whether the evil we condone will not in the end be greater than the evil we seek to avert-- or be identified with."

-- Emil Fackenheim

#Men Quotes #Evil Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“Wisest is she who knows she does not know.”
“It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can and often does motivate a lifetime, it kills more than cats, and the prospect of satisfying it can be the most exciting of emotions.”
“Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.”
“Success is always something that you have to recover from.”
“I have to pick myself up every day and say, 'The show must go on,' meaning life as I know it must go on, whatever the obstacle is, I know I can handle it, and I can get through it.”
“Apparently, it used to be extremely common for families to have two parents. They stayed together because thatâ€™s what all the other parents did. Now there are so many options, so many different ways to be a family. So many ways to rip a family apart.”
“I primarily buy art to show it off.”
“Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I put in the plant beds and transferred it! I hoed it! I've dug in it! I've sprayed it! I've chopped it! I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it!”

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