"The most serious charge that can be brought against modern benevolence is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents. These are the most dangerous elements in the world community, the most devastating curse on human progress and expression."

-- Margaret Sanger

#Expression Quotes #Community Quotes #Progress Quotes

“Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.”
“All feelings derive and become alive, whether negative or positive, from the power of Thought”
“People have been starving for intellectual fodder, but the best way to get people to close their eyes and not say anything is to tell them that they're not smart enough to comprehend.”

Source : "A New Standard: Kamasi Washington's Modern Jazz Revolution". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. June 9, 2015.
“To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is God our father dear. And Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is Man his child and care. Then every man of every clime That prays in his distress Prays to the human form divine: Love Mercy Pity Peace. And all must love the human form In heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.”
“Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return.”
“You will remember some of what you hear; much of what you read; more of what you see, and almost all of what you experience and understand fully.”

Source : Keith L. Moore, T. V. N. Persaud, Mark G. Torchia (2011). “The Developing Human”, p.7, Elsevier Health Sciences
“Because what's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?”
“Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.”

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