"We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment."

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Source : A. G. Sertillanges (1987). “The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods”, p.213, CUA Press

Antonin Sertillanges

#Pressure Quotes #Return Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“It's possible to keep drawing this moment out, any moment, hammering it thinner and thinner like beaten gold, like iced chablis, whipping it, whipping it to cheap perfume, each word blown to aneurysm.”
“The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.”

Source : Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hur Lampman, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Dept. of Research and Education (1971). “The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy”, Da Capo Pr
“It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.”
“I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second”
“Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.”
“For art to be art it has to cure.”
“The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.”

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