"We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot."

-- Saint Augustine

#Vices Quotes #Ladders Quotes

“Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them.”
“There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.”
“I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap.”
“What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges, and the talk of the watercourses everywhere in the hollows! Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants this rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen.”
“Donâ€™t keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go!”
“Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.”
“Itâ€™s irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. What they think of me after Iâ€™m dead and gone in one generation will be determined by researchers who do PhDs on me, right? So there will be a lot of revisionism. As people revised Stalin, Brezhnev and one day now Yeltsin, and later on Putin. Iâ€™ve lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after youâ€™re dead.”
“Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.”

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