"For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not."

-- Joyce Carol Oates

#Memories Quotes #Choices Quotes #Action Quotes

“Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.”
“The Saviorâ€™s gift of grace to us is not necessarily limited in time to â€˜afterâ€™ all we can do. We may receive his grace before, during and after the time when we expend our own efforts”
“The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them they could throw him into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death. When any ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to cringe and bow to him, and take off his cap and address him as 'Sir'”
“Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all.”

Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.160, Scholastic Inc.
“Speech is civilization itself.”
“Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.”
“The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not. A camera is a Nikon or a Leica or Rolleiflex, and when you strike someone with one, they know they have been hit with something substantial.”
“Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.”

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