"The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions, and thus the cry in the poem may come to sound louder, more urgent, more real than the cry in the street outside. The death in the novel may move us more potently than the death in the next room. Thus there may be a covert, betraying link between the cultivation of aesthetic response and the potential of personal inhumanity."

-- George Steiner

#Real Quotes #Moving Quotes #Risk Quotes

“Genuine rights don’t conflict—they enable us to live together without intractable conflicts.”

Source : Yaron Brook, Don Watkins (2012). “Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government”, p.161, Macmillan
“No matter how your world falls apart-and honey, that's what happens: we all build ourselves a world, and then it falls apart-but no matter how that happens, you still have the kind heart you've had since you were a child, and that's all that really counts.”

Source : Kate Bornstein (2012). “A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today”, p.185, Beacon Press
“We learn to trust man when he does what we expect him to do; we learn to trust God when He doesn't do what we expect Him to do.”
“Trust, encouragement, reward, loyalty... satisfaction. That's what I'm... you know. Trust people and they'll be true to you. Treat them greatly, and they will show themselves to be great.”
“A drowning man will clutch at a straw.”
“Why do we take a dollar? Why do we give a dollar to countries that have no rights for women? We have to think about that.”
“If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?”
“Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war.”

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