"Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will never let that happen to you.""

-- John Darnielle

#Children Quotes #Selfish Quotes #Humans Quotes

“I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.”
“A successful unification of quantum theory and relativity would necessarily be a theory of the universe as a whole. It would tell us, as Aristotle and Newton did before, what space and time are, what the cosmos is, what things are made of, and what kind of laws those things obey. Such a theory will bring about a radical shift - a revolution - in our understanding of what nature is. It must also have wide repercussions, and will likely bring about, or contribute to, a shift in our understanding of ourselves and our relationship to the rest of the universe.”
“It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.”
“There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.”
“Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.”
“I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.”
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”

Source : "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, www.believermag.com. 1973.
“The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.”

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