"Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow."

-- Dominique de Villepin

#Responsibility Quotes #Escalation Quotes #Passivity Quotes

“If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.”

Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”
“There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.”
“Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.”
“O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.”

Source : Paul Lafargue (2012). “The Right To Be Lazy”, p.36, The Floating Press
“Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.”
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
“During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.”
“Yes, My Lord."-Sebastian Michaelis”

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