"It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed."

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Source : Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

William Graham Sumner

#Evil Quotes #Effort Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.”
“You have touched my heart in so many ways with your gentle tenderness, I am lost forever in your love.”
“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”
“In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man needs to refresh itself by communion with unspoiled nature. In such surroundings- occasional as our visits may be- we can achieve that kind of physical and spiritual renewal that comes alone from the wonder of the natural world.”
“And that doesn't cost any money, to have decent relationships and viable situations. What costs money is car chases and shoot-outs, so I always thought that the thing to work on was the characters.”
“In the end, the greatest victory we can know is the result of all of our hard work, discipline, and dedication: the realization of our dreams.”
“My mother used to say when we were children, 'When a boy gets a stick in his hand, his brains run out the other end of it.' Power is a stick in the hand, and I have never heard of anybody who wielded a very big stick of power whose brains did not run out the other end. As a nation, our brains are running out the other end of our power right now.”
“I have blind trust in people. Even if that ends up hurting me, I won't change. I will go on trusting people because that's the only way I know to love someone.”

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