"Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass."

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Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (2016). “Life in the Iron-Mills”, p.21, Lulu.com

Rebecca Harding Davis

#Evil Quotes #People Quotes #Reform Quotes

“Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.”
“I love cycling, running and swimming. In recent years I've competed regularly in triathlons, which means I don't find the physical side of driving a struggle any more.”
“You don't live on the earth, you are passing through it.”
“I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.”
“We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.”
“In each experience of my life, I have had to step out of one little space of the known light, into a large area of darkness. I had to stand awhile in the darkness, and then gradually God has given me light. But not to linger in. For as soon as that light has felt familiar, then the call has always come to step out ahead again into new darkness.”
“Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.”
“You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.”

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