"When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?"

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Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Kristin Cashore

#Monsters Quotes #Katsa Quotes

“Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.”
“Darling, do you remember the man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.”
“I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot”
“Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.”
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?”
“We'll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.”
“I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when he got home, his dad asked him not what he learned in school but his dad said, 'Did you ask any great questions today?' And I always thought, what a beautiful way to educate kids that we're excited by their questions, not by our answers and whether they can repeat our answers.”
“In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.”

Source : Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.42, Routledge

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