"Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims."

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Source : Alessandro Manzoni (1983). “The Betrothed”, p.54, Penguin UK

Alessandro Manzoni

#Heart Quotes #Men Quotes #Rights Quotes

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
“I don't know which is more nutty. All this stuff I do outside of work, or the stuff I do all week.”
“That experience of being in the wild in a place where life initially began for all creatures gave me a overwhelming sense of connection.”
“It's a complicated thing, knowing how much pain my father caused in my life and the lives of others whom I love, yet still holding love for him in my heart. No matter what he did, he was my father. He helped create the person I am.”
“Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building blocks, but rather as a network of relations, and that, ultimately, there are no parts at all in this interconnected web. Whatever we call a part is merely a pattern that has some stability and therefore captures our attention.”
“In the West, we have become addicted to work. Americans now work the longest hours in the world. And the result is not health, wealth and wisdom, but rather a lot of anxiety, a lot of ill health and a lot of debt.”

Source : Tom Hodgkinson (2013). “How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto”, p.11, Harper Collins
“You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.”
“John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chainsâ€”and he withdrew his fireâ€”until the day when men withdraw their vultures.”

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