"Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos."

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Source : William Irwin Thompson (1977). “Evil and world order”

William Irwin Thompson

#Order Quotes #Roots Quotes #Chaos Quotes

“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”

Source : Klondike Annie (motion picture) (1936) See Homer 5
“We don't put the same amount of money in each stock.”
“I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.”
“Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.”

Source : Sir James Mackintosh (1835). “Memoirs of the life of the Right Honorable Sir James Mackintosh”, p.42
“I later realized that this is my view of passion: It is rooted in genuine friendship. Chemistry may be two strangers exchanging smoldering looksâ€”but passion has to be able to survive at least a twenty-minute conversation!”
“I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.”
“I love finding EPs for bands that you just discover.”
“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”

Source : Hannah Arendt (1970). “Men in Dark Times”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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