"We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do."

-- Karl A. Menninger

#Envy Quotes #Wish Quotes #Criminals Quotes

“Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.”
“Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.”

Source : Jhumpa Lahiri (2013). “The Lowland”, p.237, A&C Black
“Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.”

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“What you risk reveals what you value.”
“Hate is a disease, and in 1930 I became sick with hatred.”
“When will we get done with the fool idea that the way to make a party grow is to scare away everybody who has an extra dollar in his pocket? God forbid that the Democratic Party should become a mere gathering of the unsuccessful!”
“We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at the one, but we laugh at the drollery of the other - as the world goes a pun is regarded as an imponderable commodity, all know the rank it holds in the order of pure intellect.”

Source : Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1913). “Harriet Hosmer: letters and memories”
“No one will learn anything at all, unless one first will learn humility.”

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