"By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future."

-- David Mitchell

#Kindness Quotes #Birth Quotes #Crime Quotes

“The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free men and women, organized in free democratic trade unions can do to make a better life. We ought to be proud of it!”
“Fear that I was very different from everyone else. Fear that deep down inside I was a shallow fraud, that after the revolution or after Jesus came down to straighten everything out, everyone from hippies to hard-hats would unfold and blossom into the beautiful people they were while I would remain a gnarled little wart in the corner, oozing bile and giving off putrid smells.”

Source : Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.82, Seven Stories Press
“War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.”
“Surely, in the work of the Lord, it is what we do after we think we have done enough that really counts with him, for that's when the blessings flow.”

Source : Hartman Rector, Jr. (2011). “Already to Harvest”, p.28, Cedar Fort
“First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.”
“I think Dexter is a man who ... a part of himself is very much frozen, or arrested in a place that is pre-memory, pre-conscious, pre-verbal. Something very traumatic happened to him, he doesn't know what that is. And I think on some level he wants to know. He denies his humanity, he describes himself as someone who is without feeling, and yet I think that he maybe suspects - in a way that maybe isn't even conscious yet when we first meet him - that he is in fact a human being.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If God causes you to suffer much it is a sign that He has great designs for you and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.”
“I don't think I have nerves of steel, far from it, but I can certainly stand up to things. I am not afraid to look suffering straight in the eyes.”

Source : Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.545, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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