"Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied."

-- Miroslav Volf

#Way Quotes #Violence Quotes #Hospitality Quotes

“It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.”
“I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.”

Source : "The Idea of the Future Is Dead". Interview with Thom Mayne,
“The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life.”
“There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.”
“Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.”

Source : "Men at Forty" l. 1 (1967)
“Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.”
“If we didn't do the tour, it would have been disastrous.”
“Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.”

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