"...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good."

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Source : Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, p.167, Profile Books

#Life Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Attachment Quotes

“Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.”
“There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.”
“It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.”
“I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.”

Source : "The Prisoner". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1967 - 1968.
“I want to win football games.”
“How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!”
“Behind each piece, animating every attempt, is the echo of a precarious faith, that we are more intimately bound to one another by our kindred doubts than our brave conclusions.”

Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.
“I have read true piety defined as: loving oneâ€™s destiny unconditionally â€“ and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this sort of â€œreligiousnessâ€ is the condition for real happiness.”

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