"How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?"

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Source : Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

Rosamond Lehmann

#Ignorance Quotes #Long Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“I really do enjoy accompanying people - it's a challenge and a joy when you get it right.”
“Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.”
“If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the willingness to create that friction, that leads to social change.”

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“If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.”

Source : A. C. Grayling (2003). “Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age”, p.20, Oxford University Press, USA
“I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.”
“I want death to find me planting my cabbages.”
“We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.”
“That's the biggest problem existing in this country! People are always mixing up the word free and freedom. Free is something you get for nothin.' Freedom is a responsibility. We think freedom means do nothing, don't be responsible for your actions.... I think its time for adult Americans to be responsible for themselves, to take back the responsibility of being a free nation.”

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