"To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving."

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Source : William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.23, Westminster John Knox Press

William Sloane Coffin

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“I think that maybe happy families don't need stories the way unhappy families need stories. Maybe they're too busy living that they don't actually step back and talk about life like the Anton Chekhov quote. I prefer Anton Chekhov to Lev Tolstoy, and the reason is because of what he leaves out. Sometimes I think Tolstoy had a theory that he was proving and he proved it. Chekhov is more ambiguous.”

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“An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.”
“Race was a word that bred arrogance, danger and violence. When had incitement to race served a peaceful purpose? Race was a fuel and it needed only a match to light it. Any match - my hostility, your ambition, a third person's advantage.”

Source : Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”
“Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.”
“In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.”
“Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments”
“If there is only 24 hours to save the universe why are you talking to us?”
“Every time I open the paper, there's some symphony orchestra collapsing somewhere in the United States. What the hell is going on? And then you find out that the board members try to run these things as businesses.”

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