"To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation."

-- Jane Addams

#Pride Quotes #Self Quotes #Effort Quotes

“The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that only men were by nature entitled to wages. If a woman earned money, outside domestic service, it was because some misfortune had deprived her of masculine protection.”
“When women love us they forgive everything.”
“Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.”

Source : Moses Harvey (1886). “Where are We and Whither Tending?: Three Lectures on the Reality and Worth of Human Progress”
“No left wing parties have any respect for liberal economic values; and most centre and right wing parties merely promote a paternalistic stateism. Does it thus fall to the self-reliant students of the ruggedly individualist philosophy of magick to champion a certain measured libertarianism ?”
“What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.”
“To us love says humming that the heart's stalled motor has begun working again.”

Source : 1928 'Letter fromParis to Comrade Kostorov on the Nature of Love' (translated by Samuel Charteris).
“Beirut is where I was born and raised.”
“We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.”

Source : "UN nuclear boss warns warmongers over Iran" by Peter Walker and Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2007.

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