"I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy."

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

#Evil Quotes #Long Quotes #Mind Quotes

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”

Source : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W. B. Rönnfeldt (1898*). “Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims”
“Two wrongs do not make a right; but three rights make a left.”
“The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?”
“I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists do, there's more space for them to do their art without having to discuss it in terms of racial identity.”
“Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.”
“Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.”

Source : Jean Houston (1987). “The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Mythology and Sacred Psychology”, Tarcher
“I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.”

Source : Sam Lipsyte (2010). “The Ask: A Novel”, p.169, Macmillan
“This was a land of lost souls. Human beings who had weathered great storms in life, had suffered unspeakable loss, had been put to painful tests of existence, and still remained standing-but just barely.”

Source : Clare Vanderpool (2013). “Navigating Early”, p.141, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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