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May Quotes by Iris Murdoch
- The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or…
- Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
- To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
- Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be…
- Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated…
- To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that…
- Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. — William Shakespeare
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh