"There can be no progress without head-on confrontation."

-- Christopher Hitchens

#Progress Quotes #Argument Quotes #Confrontation Quotes

“If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.”
“To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriendâ€¦ I suppose I ought to have realize itâ€™s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.”
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
“OK, whatever, I was taking out false loans”
“God is a crutch? Yeah, well, not believing in God is a coma.”
“The only truths we can point to are the ever-changing truths of our own experience.”

Source : Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.62, A&C Black
“I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.”

Source : F. Stone's Bi-Weekly, December 14, 1971.
“I just know that when I go onstage, I give everything I have, not only my feet, not only my legs, not only my body. I try to tell a story. Sometimes I am able to cry because I feel like it. Sometimes I am able to love because I feel like it.”

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