"Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Together Quotes #Society Quotes #Legends Quotes

“When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.”
“I'm human, just like anybody else.”
“It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.”
“I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.”

Source : Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.689, Delphi Classics
“Every empire eventually falls.”
“I actually liked the disolation of winter; it was the season when it was okay to be unhappy. If I were to ever kill myself, I thought it would be in the summer.”
“Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.”
“In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.”

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