"There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides."

-- Robert Breault

#Integrity Quotes #Self Quotes #Battle Quotes

“Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.”
“Sanctification is glory begun. Glory is sanctification completed.”
“In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.”
“There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.”

Source : Stirling Moss, Ken W. Purdy (1963). “All But My Life”, London : William Kimber
“We can't make America great again without love, without hope, without justice, without peace and without an acknowledgement that the fear that was stoked not only by President-Elect Trump's campaign, but also a lot of fear was stoked by Democrats as well, but there are people who are really fearful.”
“One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.”

Source : "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.
“It was the straying that found the path direct.”

Source : Austin Osman Spare (2007). “The Writings of Austin Osman Spare: Anathema of Zos, the Book of Pleasure and the Focus of Life”, p.78, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.”

Source : "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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