"What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?"

-- Ann Leckie

#Citizens Quotes #Well Being Quotes #Wells Quotes

“The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.”
“The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling us for two thousand years and continues to tell us, which is why the Church is here and essentially one of the major reasons why people hate it so much.”
“Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.”
“Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.”
“I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.”
“Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.”
“It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing”

Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”
“Perspective starts from one viewpoint and never gets away from it. But the viewpoint is quite unimportant. It is though someone were to draw profiles all his life, leading people to think that a man has only one eye...”

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