Guillaume Musso Book Quotes & Sayings

Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power, we gain freedom from personal responsibility for what we do and are forced to do - the seduction of it - but we lose the dignity of being real men and women. Power corrupts; attracts the worst and corrupts the best ... Refuse to participate in evil; insist on taking part in what is healthy, generous, and responsible. Stand up, speak out, and when necessary fight back. Get down off the fence and lend a hand, grab a-hold, be a citizen - not a subject. — Edward Abbey

We are what make up society. — Tom Shadyac

Don't you dare
Shrink yourself
For someone else's comfort -
Do not become small
For people who refuse to grow. — N.a.

Ideology has consequences. — Robert Greenwald

This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on. — Eknath Easwaran

Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth. — Sidney Poitier

The most important thing to me is to give something back to my parents, because they've done so much for me throughout my life. — Leona Lewis

She looks sort of like a nurse, Ruby thought. Or a nun, but a movie star nun, not a real one, and an old-fashioned rescuing-the-orphans sort of movie star nun, not the comedy sort. It was her face. It was open and fresh and happy and she had shiny dark hair pulled back in a ponytail. — Sarah-Kate Lynch

A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But having made the case we are now seeing an emerging consensus among business leaders, economic leaders, political leaders and even faith leaders. — Winnie Byanyima

If I love myself
I love you.
If I love you
I love myself. — Jalaluddin Rumi

It was, he thought, his gesture against the whole pro-euthanasia movement that talked so glibly of choice without realising the fire with which one played when tinkering with fragile taboos against killing others. Yes, he thought, Mrs Bates's life did not seem to amount to much, but to her it was all she had. — Alexander McCall Smith

Maybe they see something in him, see something in his face, in his features. Maybe they see what I see from this disjointed, foggy perspective. The desperation in his expression, the anguish carved into his features, the way he looks at me, like he might die if I do. And I can't help but think this is an interesting parting gift from the world. — Tahereh Mafi

Communication is pointless and we're all doomed. — Frank Portman

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. — Samuel Beckett