Lescure Company Quotes & Sayings

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind. — Zhuangzi

The practice. Muscles do not interpret right or wrong just familiarity. Through repetition we begin to make what is unfamiliar our own — Jeff Allen

Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over the conscience; on the other hand, morals are too material to rule the mind, and do not fetter an 'intellectual' man, a so-called independent, a 'freethinker.' — Max Stirner

The painter ... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. — Annie Dillard

We already have five times as much oil and coal and gas on the books as any scientist thinks is safe to burn. — Bill McKibben

During a carnival, men put masks over their masks. — Xavier Forneret