Stavrogins Confession Quotes & Sayings

The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under. — Edmund Morgan

The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be. — Ronald Ross

It is on a day like this one,
a little later a little earlier
that you descover without surprise
that something is wrong
that you don't know how to live
and you will never know — Georges Perec

You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht. — Chad Harbach

Ladies: If a man really wants to be with you, you WILL know it! If you have to question it, let it go! — Tony Gaskins

Without Virtue there can be no liberty — Benjamin Rush

From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit. — Henry David Thoreau

The conflict between church teachings and natural desires results in guilt, shame and anger. — Darrel Ray

Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean. — Richelle E. Goodrich

It is not loving to impose our own grid onto others. We need to understand their situation and their needs accurately, and this comes from listening to them, not coming in with our own assumptions. — Matt Perman

Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman. — Patricia Hewitt

In the future, a part of this class - individuals particularly sensitive to this question of the future - will realize that their happiness depends on that of others, that the human species can only survive united and pacific. They will cease to belong to the mercantile innovative class, and refuse to put themselves at the service of pirates. They will become what I call transhumans (who will give birth to a new order of abundance). — Jacques Attali

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham. — Richard Dawkins