Quotes
Authors
James Harvey Robinson
"We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to them. The result is that most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do." --
Source : James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”
James Harvey Robinson
#Believe Quotes
#Doubt Quotes
#Resentment Quotes
“What has happened to protesters in the past was that, basically, the government in 2012 put an end to a series of mass protests by changing laws, by making it possible to arrest anybody for protests, and by making basically a show of imprisoning not just protest leaders, and not specifically protest leaders, but activists, rank-and-file protest participants. That gets across the idea that anybody who joins a protest without being an organizer, without being a visible leader, risks arrest, and not risks just arrest, but years in a Russian jail.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.”
“There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.”
“It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.”
“There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.”
Source : Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Sower”, p.154, Open Road Media
“You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels.”
“Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward.”
“Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things”