"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

-- Marcus Aurelius

#Truth Quotes #Lying Quotes #Integrity Quotes

“In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.”

Source : Sidney Lumet (2010). “Making Movies”, p.31, Vintage
“Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.”
“I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.”
“Love is light, warmth and comfort. Understanding is just light.”
“Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.”

Source : Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage
“Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.”

Source : "Medical Nemesis". Book by Ivan Illich, 1976.
“In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because of a real thing: the actual, concrete decline in violent crime that started in the early 90s and which appears to be permanent. America is simply a safer place than it used to be, and looks set to stay that way.”

Source : "Our Obsession With Mass Incarceration May Finally Be Ebbing" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 2, 2015.
“I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.”

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