Torfin Quotes & Sayings

Talking of suicide, it is perhaps noteworthy that both of Dostoievsky's characters kill themselves: Stavrogin out of indifference and self disgust; Kirilov, after years of planning the gesture, in order to demonstrate to mankind that there is no God and that men are free to do as they please. My suicide will be less didactic. — Nanavira Thera

Change can only begin with awareness. — Miranda J. Barrett

The myth is that if housing prices go up, Americans will be richer. What banks - and behind them, the Federal Reserve - really want is for new buyers to be able to borrow enough money to buy the houses from mortgage defaulters, and thus save the banks from suffering from more mortgage defaults. — Michael Hudson

You have to trust the words. They do not create anything more than themselves. — David Levithan

Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to underestimate them or patronise them. — Michael Morpurgo