"I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most primitive, barbarous motivations for any kind of progress."

-- Murray Bookchin

#Motivation Quotes #People Quotes #Progress Quotes

“An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.”
“So I think it was a good thing It was a little surreal watching Leo scream 'I'm not going to die today!' with our music playing - that was the last thing on my mind when I wrote the song.”
“They say crying makes the heart lighter”
“Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.”
“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”
“Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.”

Source : Paul Simon (2012). “Lyrics 1964 - 2011”, p.325, Simon and Schuster
“Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.”
“I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his concept of religion. in his whole world outlook, are greater than the changes that occurred during the preceding four thousand years all put together. ... because of science and its applications to human life, for these have bloomed in my time as no one in history had had ever dreamed could be possible.”

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