"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."

-- Plutarch

#Fate Quotes #Men Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.”
“Although I have no objection to accepting the existence of relatively constant psychic contents that survive personal ego, it must always be born in mind that we have no way of knowing what these contents are actually like "as such." All we can observe is their effect on other living people, whose spiritual level and whose personal unconscious crucially influence the way these contents actually manifest themselves.”

Source : "Atom and Archetype" edited by Carl Alfred Meier, translated by David Roscoe, 1992.
“Misery leads to crime. I saw so many boys whipped it ruined my mind.”
“The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man.”
“I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.”
“Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.”

Source : "EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.
“We're all African-American, so we're all influenced by each other.”
“Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.”

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