"The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions."

-- Colin Wilson

#Intelligent Quotes #People Quotes #Evil Quotes

“I know already that I can survive it. That's the sorrow of it all. That whatever comes I'll survive it. I mean, even if the worst were to be true, would it really be the worst?”

Source : Scott Hutchins (2012). “A Working Theory of Love: A Novel”, p.173, Penguin
“A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'”
“You can choose to think in ways that will support you in your happiness and success instead of ways that don't.”
“It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in scientific borderlands not only are facts gathered that [are] often new in kind, but it is in these regions that wholly new concepts arise. It is my own faith that just as the older biology from its faithful studies of external forms provided a new concept in the doctrine of evolution, so the new biology is yet fated to furnish entirely new fundamental concepts of science, at which physics and chemistry when concerned with the non-living alone could never arrive.”
“I never think about franchises, to be honest. I always just do the film.”

Source : "Director Luc Besson Talks LUCY, a Possible Sequel, His Approach to Female Characters, and More; Says TAKEN 3 Has Nothing to Do with Liam Neeson’s Family". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 23, 2014.
“He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.”

Source : Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.36, Cambridge University Press
“In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas come, namely that part of ourselves that dreams. The unconscious is our best collaborator.”
“No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.”

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