"The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs"

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Source : John Dos Passos (1956). “The Theme is Freedom”

John Dos Passos

#Strong Quotes #Men Quotes #Long Quotes

“When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What's important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.”
“I'm the audience first, and if you're gonna be a great performer, you need to be a great audience. So, I do music for me first, and whoever likes it likes it, and whoever doesn't -- well, it's just not for them.”
“Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.”
“I'm a very proud Australian, always bragging about our country wherever I am in the world.”
“If Allah has written for you happiness, no one can steal that from you, and if He has written for your heart to break, then no-one can mend it but He, so always put your trust in Allah.”
“Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.”
“No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations”
“I don't steal things. I'm rich.”

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