Brazzaville Conference Quotes & Sayings

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy. — Dustin Hoffman

You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It's a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all ... That was like ignoring cancer. — Octavia E. Butler

Realism to be effective must be a matter of selection.genius chooses its materials with a view to their beauty and effectiveness; mere talent copies what it thinks is nature, only to find it has been deceived by the external grossness of things. — Julia Marlowe

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. — Thomas Jefferson

The pessimist's credo, or one of them, is that nonexistence never hurt anyone and existence hurts everyone. — Thomas Ligotti

Steady," Peter said, not losing a step. "Have to keep steady or all is lost. — Brom

Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface. — Santosh Kalwar

DEMETRIUS
... do I not in plainest truth
Tell you, I do not, nor I cannot love you?
HELENA
And even for that do I love you the more. — William Shakespeare

A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom. — Richard Rohr

They say martyrdom is the highest rank a believer can achieve! Do not believe in this! The highest rank is the life itself, it is the existence itself! There is no rank in death, but only nothingness! Rank exists only in life! Stick to the life, stay away from death! Neither kill nor die! — Mehmet Murat Ildan