Lord Edmund Blackadder Quotes & Sayings

Our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards . . . helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next. - Albert Bandura20 — Philip G. Zimbardo

We should not be frightened by appearances. — Alain De Botton

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us. — Marvin Hamlisch

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it. — Moses Hadas

I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do. — Anita Shreve

We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another; that all social change is built on the bone and muscle, and out of the flesh and blood, of human creators. — Andrea Dworkin

When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences. — Muhammad Yunus

We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom, and delirium. Because we need brutality and raw adventure, because men and women first learned to love in, under, and all around trees, because we need for every pair of feet and legs about ten leagues of naked nature, crags to leap from, mountains to measure by, deserts to finally die in when the heart fails. — Edward Abbey

He pursued a lifetime of abuse that could only come from a warped relationship with the future. — Dana Spiotta

Don't wait for good things to happen. Do whatever you can, wherever, and however. You will be surprised when good things follow. — Sohail Mahmood

Less is more. Simplicity is awesome. That's all you need in life. Its just my personal philosophy. — G-Eazy

I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers. — David Mitchell

When every heart is filled with peace and every mind is searching for peace, how can there be war? — Debasish Mridha