"Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity."

-- Max Lerner

#Humanity Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Privilege Quotes

“[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.”
“The self is a dance, constantly in motion.”
“I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.”
“The Lord doesn't expect us to work harder than we are able. He doesn't (nor should we) compare our efforts to those of others. Our Heavenly Father asks only that we do the best we canâ€”that we work according to our full capacity, however great or small that may be.”
“You can either take it as a way to motivate yourself or be happy with what you've got.”
“I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.”
“We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.”

Source : "'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'". Interview with Susanne Beyer and Lothar Gorris, www.spiegel.de. November 11, 2009.
“Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.”

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