"All is vanity, nothing is fair."

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

“You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.”
“The destructive impact of psychiatry upon our civilization has been given far too little attention, and the role of psychiatry in Nazi Germany almost no attention. It is entirely possible that without psychiatry the holocaust could never have taken place.”
“I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.”
“Astoundedâ€”and indifferentâ€”for he was a man who, in effect, had no â€˜day beforeâ€™.”
“The unknown is the biggest question.”
“You've got to give loyalty down, if you want loyalty up.”
“England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.”
“So you didnâ€™t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .â€ â€œBecause experience is the only teacher,â€ Hey-Soos says. â€œEven if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids donâ€™t listen to their parents, or people donâ€™t leave churches and do what the preacher tells them? Thereâ€™s only one thing thatâ€™s universal.â€ â€œWhatâ€™s that?â€ â€œThe truth.”

Source : Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.171, Manonmani Publishers

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