"In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor."

-- Vinoba Bhave

#Want Quotes #Vigor Quotes #Steam Quotes

“We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.”
“There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations”

Source : Michel Foucault (2012). “Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison”, p.24, Vintage
“Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.”
“Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.”

Source : Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster
“Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.”
“I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever.”
“In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.”
“Profits and prices are the street signs of the economy. Only fools flout them. The much-maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve.”

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