"We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?"

-- Edith Wharton

#Life Quotes #People Quotes #Novel Quotes

“An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.”
“...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.”

Source : Flannery O'Connor (1993). “"A Good Man is Hard to Find"”, p.129, Rutgers University Press
“They say that the best counsel is that of woman.”

Source : "'El médico de su honra' ('The Surgeon of his Honour')". Play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Act 1, Scene 2, 1637.
“It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.”
“Can capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can.”
“Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters.”
“Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers.”
“Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.”

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