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All Quotes Collection
"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead."
58
"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
41
"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
49
"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment."
55
"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."
35
"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."
57
"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
52
"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."
39
"No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it."
40
"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
87
"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
45
"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."
65
"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."
43
"Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black."
38
"Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours."
26
"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it."
39
"Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks."
190
"People can cry much easier than they can change."
38
"I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative."
56
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
41
"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."
34
"Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?"
54
"I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all."
40
"The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black."
19
"But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power."
25
"Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses."
21
"Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities."
50
"If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not."
46
"It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian."
43
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