"Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify."

-- Reinhold Niebuhr

#Responsibility Quotes #Behaviour Quotes #Bourgeoisie Quotes

“I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.”
“The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.”
“This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.”
“This is the first time in history that a war has involved the whole world, and also it may last many years more; this thought is soul-shattering for all of us as human beings. It is horrible to think that the crimes committed by this one man Hitler have these many years been destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands and millions, and one would despair entirely were it not certain that the majority, the innumerable majority which opposes him openly or secretly, will succeed in wiping out once and for all him and his.”
“Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles on human life, which makes the desert blossom as the rose, and which glorifies the common things and common ways of earth. It made of this, the angel of life, a shape of sin and darkness ... Even in the unions which it reluctantly permitted, it degraded and dwarfed the passion which it could not entirely exclude, and permitted it coarsely to exist for the mere necessity of procreation.”
“The longer you spend your time worrying about all the negative things in your life, the further you push any chance of retrieving the positive.”
“Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.”
“My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model.”

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