"The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal."

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Source : Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

Alfred Bester

#Men Quotes #Giving Quotes #Priorities Quotes

“At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.”
“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
“What's your hurry? There is nothing up ahead that's any better than it is right here.”

Source : Mark Richardson (2008). “Zen and Now”, p.50, Vintage
“I originally wanted to be F. Scott Fitzgerald, but failed.”
“Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives. but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination.”
“If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.”

Source : Greg L. Bahnsen (1985). “By This Standard: The Authority of God's Law Today”, p.175, American Vision
“The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.”
“I can't stay in the box and wait for the ball. I can't - I would die.”

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