Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.
What is society but an individual? [...] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.
The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self.
I'd like to have a good long talk with you once you've calmed down. Please call me soon. Happy Birthday.
As a species we're doomed by hope, then? You could call it hope. That, or desperation. But we're doomed without hope, as well, said Jimmy. Only as individuals, said Crake cheerfully.
Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctio...
She soon called a halt to the work. Judy's great success was that she stopped her helpers before they got tired.
she said, “I swear, I put something in my mouth one time, and I’m addicted. I think I have oral fixation issues.
Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.
The atmosphere felt unexpectedly intense and the music was frantic. The beat made it both difficult to think straight and pleasant to move – like swimming almost.
Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.
With you I understood that pleasure is not something you give or take. It's a way of giving yourself and calling forth the gift of self from another person.
I do not want to be labeled as an atheist; I do hate religions’ stupidity and insanity, but there is nothing else I can be called.
The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.
Those occupying leadership roles who completely lack integrity are what we call 'Blind shepherds'. They are not really 'bad' leaders, because they are not leaders at all: they are misleaders.
From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty
And when there is the possibility of peace, a new fight erupts, based on an old complaint, and which some people call justice adn others madness.
Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.
All she could see was her demise and it called out a tempting ruse, offering a suffering less potent than what sickened the living.
Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.
