Pieper Red Quotes & Sayings

If the international response to natural disasters was rational, we would expect a greater amount of funding to be provided to larger disasters and to disasters that occur in poorer countries, which are less able to cope. But that's not what happens. Funding seems to be allocated in proportion with how evocative and widely publicized the disaster is, rather than on the basis of its scale and severity. — William MacAskill

If you're not at peace, nothing else matters — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Our problems come not from what we believe, but from how we believe in what we do. — Craig Stone

...When you're mad it becomes easy to solve many difficult problems. Madness is a pair of Arabian Nights shoes; if you put them on you can leap clear of thousands of bogus questions.'
'Bogus questions? What exactly do you mean by bogus?'
'For instance, what will people say? What will happen in the future? — Rabindranath Tagore

I produce music as an apple tree produces apples. — Camille Saint-Saens

I just feel out of this world sometimes. — Lil' Wayne

The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination. — Bertrand Russell

Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others. — Mikhail Lermontov