"Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it."

-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Comfort Quotes #Conscience Quotes

“That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.”

Source : Robert Neelly Bellah (1975). “The broken covenant: American civil religion in time of trial”, Harper San Francisco
“The true France is a multicultural France. Where someone is appointed minister not because she is a woman but because she is competent. And not because she is from a visible minority. I am against positive discrimination. Someone can be intelligent and black, and someone can be an imbecile and white.”
“Being out here in the country and having acres of land, you can go outside naked if you want.”
“I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.”
“To seek the highest good is to live well.”
“A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick”
“My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't.”
“I could never figure out or probably did not take the trouble to figure out what the great philosophical problems are about. The momentous statements I come across are at best a storm in a teacup. There are quite a number of people who have a vested interest in the stuff, make a noble living out of it, and they conspire with one another to keep it alive.”

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