Bgc Redemption Quotes & Sayings

If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth — Saadat Hasan Manto

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness. — Daniel J. Boorstin

You live, learn, and move on, and there are bumps in the road. Sometimes they seem like we're diving off cliffs without wings. But at least if we try to fly, we have a chance that maybe we can. — Melanie Nilles

Altruism, compassion, empathy, love, conscience, the sense of justice - all of these things, the things that hold society together, the things that allow our species to think so highly of itself, can now confidently be said to have a firm genetic basis. That's the good news. The bad news is that, although these things are in some ways blessings for humanity as a whole, they didn't evolve for the "good of the species" and aren't reliably employed to that end. Quite the contrary: it is now clearer than ever how (and precisely why) the moral sentiments are used with brutal flexibility, switched on and off in keeping with self-interest; and how naturally oblivious we often are to this switching. In the new view, human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their constitutional ignorance of the misuse. The title of this book is not wholly without irony. — Robert Wright

The educated horse is a thinking horse, and it seems that he understands every now and then something happens that he must chalk up as a mistake and be done with it. — Dennis Murphy

In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce, and worldly pursuits. — Isaac Asimov

Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature ... in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The visit took place. It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle against pestilence and suffocation. — Victor Hugo

What surprised me most about the Donner tragedy was that, given the terrible circumstances, how anyone survived at all. — Rodman Philbrick

I think every actor is looking for a challenge, and to play something different, and to be a part of a project with other great actors. — Hilary Duff