"Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton."

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

#Men Quotes #Genius Quotes #Pestilence Quotes

“So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.”
“We feel like we are using the East Side to kind of spoof what everybody thinks is cool.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves”
“The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest - in the mature years.”

Source : Mary Ellen Snodgrass (1992). “Late Achievers: Famous People who Succeeded Late in Life”, Libraries Unltd Incorporated
“I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further ethical progress.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?”
“Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.”
“In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.”

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