"We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might be inherently silly. Those are things that are almost designed to be thrown away."

“Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor.... The push for justice on the other hand might be at the center of the Gospel but it also attacks the balance of power in the society. Since the rich always exploit the poor, to give the poor power, dignity and humanity makes them less pliable, less cooperative.”

“I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.”

“Have all beautiful things sad destinies?”

Source : Jean Rhys (1966). “Wide Sargasso Sea”

“A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.”

Source : John C. Wright (2012). “The Hermetic Millennia”, p.116, Macmillan

“Someone who wants to succeed has to overcome his own greed first”

“What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.”

“The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.”

Source : Paul Ricoeur, Denis Savage (2008). “Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation”, p.379, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

“No matter where you are in the world the moon is never bigger than your thumb.”