"Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents."

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Source : BBC Reith Lectures, 1967, in 'Listener' 30 November 1967

Edmund Leach

#Secret Quotes #Privacy Quotes #Source Quotes

“It's about sharing. You just give what you have to give wherever you go, and you let God handle the rest.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.”
“You didn't build that' will be Obama's political epitaph: With these remarks, Obama has come out of the closet as a most odious collectivist, who believes religiously that government predation is a condition for production. Or, put simply, that the parasite created the host.”
“You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so youd better do some good while you are here.”
“Oil is seldom found where it is most needed, and seldom most needed where it is found.”
“Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their way of expressing worship for the only Light they can know, an outer one. But man can also know the inner Sun, the Light of the Overself. How much more reason has he to chirp and sing than the little birds! Yet how few man feel gratitude for such privilege.”

Source : Paul Brunton (1988). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The religious urge. The reverential life”
“Behaviorism is sometimes criticized as encouraging unethical behavior. For example, most organizations offer rewards for increasing revenue and threat of punishment, perhaps firing if you don't "make your number."”
“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”

Source : "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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