"History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself."

-- Naguib Mahfouz

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Literature Quotes

“If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.”
“[My father] didn't make much money, and I tell a lot of people, you know, I was a vegetarian before people knew what a vegetarian was. That's all I ate was vegetables.”
“The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.”

Source : Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.147, Routledge
“I thought I could organise freedom/How Scandinavian of me ...”
“There's always beauty, if you know where to look.”
“English muffins with avocado is one of my favorite breakfasts.”
“We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.”
“You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.”

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