Shmoop Candide Quotes & Sayings

If we took away the ability to put defibrillators in people in their last years, people would be shouting in the streets. — Atul Gawande

But [religious faith]'s not extinct, Janet. It's become nearly universal in the fleet and is growing very quickly in the Alliance."

"Yes, and that's why I cannot now or I think ever will have a chosen faith. There should be no pressure for the path one takes. Oh, it's no secret that Islam has more of an appeal to me than the others, but Allah understands this as he understands all things. The notion of faith is, I believe, far more important than the choice of a particular one."

"And what of the unfaithful?" asked Justin. "What of them?"

"If they have faith, I believe they'll have greater understanding of things; if not, I can't order someone to believe. It would be stupid to try and evil to force someone to pretend. As if God wants frightened adherents bowing on trembling knees. The harm all those fanatics did before the Grand Collapse," she said with true rancor, "those idiots I'd shoot, if I had the ability. — Dani Kollin

People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor. — Zora Neale Hurston

Life is usually loved more than our most sacred love. In that knowledge lies the beginning of our cruelty and of our survival. — Josephine Hart

You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. — Jeanette Winterson

The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth. — D.H. Lawrence

Comparisons do ofttime great grievance. — John Lydgate

demand and supply are merely two sides of the same coin. They are the same thing looked at from different directions. Supply creates demand because at bottom it is demand. The supply of the thing they make is all that people have, in fact, to offer in exchange for the things they want. — Henry Hazlitt

Like wading through water; That hard, that slow. — Lauren Henderson

I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison — Theodore Kaczynski