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One Cannot Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only be setting someone free.
- It is a terrible, an inexorable law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim,…
- The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers…
More One Cannot Quotes
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. — Jane Austen
- Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God's… — Ramakrishna
- As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable… — Arthur C. Clarke
- One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. — Richard Burton
- One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew… — Sholom Aleichem
- I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and… — Camille Claudel