"Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy"

-- Gunnar Myrdal

#Shy Quotes #Morality Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“I have never been a superstar and never believed in it.”
“Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.”
“What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed by those exploiting them. The more we are willing to see about their lives, the more we will see. Humans seem to take perverse pleasure in attributing stupidity to animals when it is almost always entirely a question of human ignorance.”

Source : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (2010). “The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company
“What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?”

Source : George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”
“As I glanced at the phraseology of the research report, dull and unfathomable to outsiders like me, I thought that if you have the ambition to become a villain, the first thing you should do is learn to be impenetrable. Donâ€™t act like Blofeldâ€”monocled and ostentatious. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.”
“Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile.”
“Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.”

Source : Terry Lynn Taylor (1996). “Angel Days”, Ballantine Books
“My goal in life is to get as old as I possibly can, to have as much fun as I possibly can, and then die.”

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