"Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case. Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and madness."

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Source : Ford Madox Ford (2016). “The Good Soldier: Ford's works”, p.190, VM eBooks

Ford Madox Ford

#Suicide Quotes #Mind Quotes #Passionate Quotes

“Family is what really runs through my head. I'm usually bombarded with tons of phone calls, but I'm usually bombarded with love as well.”
“Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.”

Source : Lancet I: 954 (1958)
“I like the challenge of getting players to rise to certain levels, but that's the easy part. The biggest challenge is to get them to believe in what we're doing. They have to understand that it's O.K. to have good days and bad days.”
“What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?”
“The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore cannot be parted from it.”
“I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.”
“Truth was a tool. It should never simply be said. No, it had to be bent, twisted, colored, until it became a weapon.”

Source : Nalini Singh (2008). “Hostage to Pleasure”, p.114, Penguin
“We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God.”

Source : Richard Curtis (2007). “What Is Religion?”, p.42, Lulu.com

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