"My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don't have to do special penance for that. The crime and the penance, in that case, coincide perfectly. They are identical."

-- Robert Penn Warren

#Men Quotes #Special Quotes #Penance Quotes

“[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you have consciously and voluntarily chosen to impose upon yourself because you recognize its superiority to your present behavior.”
“It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.”
“Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.”
“I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be able to hear it if they give it a chance. I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.”
“Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.”

Source : Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.288, Lantern Books
“Why put it on if you're not going to strut?”
“America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out.”
“The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.”

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