"Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects."

-- Alexis de Tocqueville

#People Quotes #Violence Quotes #Dangerous Quotes

“Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.”
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the worldâ€™s existence. All these half-tones of the soulâ€™s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”

Source : Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited
“As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do well to abandon their culture of death, and instead concentrate on getting laid 72 times in this world, unless of course they would really prefer chilled or white raisins, according to their taste, in the next.”

Source : "Virgins? What virgins?" by Ibn Warraq, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2002.
“There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.”
“All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.”
“If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.”
“When fans come up to me and Vanessa, they're really sweet and ask for autographs - but once they see the guys, the girls tend to scream.”
“Reduce risk, lower your required capital, and focus on what youâ€™re really good atâ€”and hire others for what you are not.) This is something you should think about in any business: donâ€™t try to do everything. You arenâ€™t the best at everything. Find out where you have an advantage and stick to that.”

Source : Marc Ecko (2015). “Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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