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If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent (Very Quotes)
Everything that divides men, everything that specified, separates or pens them, is a sin against humanity (Very Quotes)
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo (Very Quotes)
People are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love. But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything (Very Quotes)
Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing (Very Quotes)
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood? (Very Quotes)
My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do (Very Quotes)
I used to be a superhero. No one could touch me, not even myself. You are like a phone booth that I somehow stumbled into, And now look at me, I am just like everybody else (Very Quotes)
You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long. So why don't you give me a call when you're willing to fight for what you think is real, for what you think is right (Very Quotes)
I always feel I have to take a stand, and there's always someone on hand to hate me for standing there. I always feel I have to open my mouth, and every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere (Very Quotes)
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network (Very Quotes)
No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything (Very Quotes)
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double (Very Quotes)
There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone (Very Quotes)
However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family (Very Quotes)
Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile (Very Quotes)
Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise (Very Quotes)
By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration (Very Quotes)
As wise women and men in every culture tell us: The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us (Very Quotes)
Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality (Very Quotes)
I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it (Very Quotes)
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile (Very Quotes)
You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it (Very Quotes)
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself (Very Quotes)
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries (Very Quotes)
The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them (Very Quotes)
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice (Very Quotes)
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil (Very Quotes)
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles (Very Quotes)
Buddy Holly was twenty-two. Think of what he might have gone on to achieve. I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course (Very Quotes)