Herland Sparknotes Quotes & Sayings

And Sunday's the one day I rest, give thanks, and bless. — Special Ed

Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level? — Muhammad Yunus

The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether these poor people would not fare far better if they were entrusted to the devils in Hell than they do at the hands of the devils of the New World who masquerade as Christians. — Bartolome De Las Casas

What is illusion?
M.: To whom is the illusion? Find it out. Then illusion will vanish.
Generally people want to know about illusion and do not examine
to whom it is. It is foolish. Illusion is outside and unknown. But
the seeker is considered to be known and is inside. Find out what
is immediate, intimate, instead of trying to find out what is distant
and unknown. — Ramana Maharshi

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up. — Charles Dickens

If you are touched by music you are touched by love in a very pure way. — Pepe Romero

But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible. — Timothy Snyder

George Stigler was a delightful correspondent. In a letter from London in 1948, after remarking on the inconvertibility of the pound and the inedible, still-rationed food, he concluded, So here I am losing weight and gaining pounds. — Milton Friedman

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven. — Henry Fielding

When you have a smartphone, the things that it can do are kind of ridiculous and terrifying. — Jonathan Nolan