"Flatter not thyself in thy faith to God, if thou wantest charity for thy neighbor; and think not thou halt charity for thy neighbor, if thou wantest faith to God; where they are not both together, they are both wanting; they are both dead, if once divided."

-- Francis Quarles

#Thinking Quotes #Together Quotes #Charity Quotes

“At that point Ms Fox came in and said, "Hello, carry on as if I am not here." Then she lay down on the floor.”
“In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.”
“Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”
“There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.”
“It is a great art to saunter !”
“I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.”
“To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers”

Source : Alain Badiou, Gregory Elliott (2012). “The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings”, p.20, Verso Books
“How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?”

Source : Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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