"What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is."

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Source : Malcolm Lowry (1965). “Selected letters”

Malcolm Lowry

#Men Quotes #Weakness Quotes #Helping Quotes

“He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris, from this, his own Foreign Ministry, had taken it upon themselves to issue Iranian passports to Jews escaping the very Holocaust they were aware of, but that he now denied.”

Source : Hooman Majd (2013). “The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran”, p.52, Penguin UK
“I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.”
“The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.”
“Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.”
“With the IoT, we're headed to a world where things aren't liable to break catastrophically - or at least, we'll have a hell of a heads' up. We're headed to a world where our doors unlock when they sense us nearby.”
“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.”
“Travel is intensified living â€¦ and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.”
“This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.”

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