"The wavering mind is but a base possession."

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Euripides

#Decision Quotes #Mind Quotes #Literature Quotes

“They paint me as a villain, I just autograph the artwork.”
“The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism, Nazism, communism. All of them treat man as a sacrificial animal to be immolated for the benefit of the group, the tribe, the society, the state.”
“Martin Luther King really was a safety valve for white people. Any time it appeared that the black community was on the verge of really doing what we ought to do based on having been attacked, they put Martin Luther King on television. He was always saying, "We must use nonviolence. We must overcome hate with love." White people loved that. That's why they gave him a Nobel Prize. But when Martin Luther King started condemning the Vietnam War, that's when white people turned against him.”

Source : "The Maverick of Omaha". Interview With Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2006.
“Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction.... In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life - in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character.... It is essentially a doctrine of passive obedience; it inculcates submission to all authorities found established.”
“That's the first time I've been involved in such a big way as a voice actor and this script [Voltron] is very matter of factly.”
“Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.”
“Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.”

Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1861). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.76
“The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.”

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