"Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people."

-- Stanley King

#People Quotes #Evil Quotes #Design Quotes

“Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.”

Source : Henry Drummond (2013). “The Greatest Thing in the World: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc
“For years I have made it my mission to destroy the influence of the Christian clich, 'the safest place to be is in the center of the will of God.' God would never choose for us safety at the cost of significance. God created you so that your life would count, not so that you could count the days of your life,”
“I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.”

Source : "Herman Koch Gets Meta In 'Dear Mr. M'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. August 28, 2016.
“My kind of gay is like the late-breaking-lesbian kind of gay.”
“Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.”

Source : Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, G. Aroul (1984). “Selected Poems”, p.118, New Directions Publishing
“I have high expectations for myself. I'm not out there playing the game just to be playing it. I want to win a championship.”
“I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.”
“I am shyer than most people think.”

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