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People Quotes by Iris Murdoch
- Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
- Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
- ... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of…
- People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
- ... where does one person end and another person begin?
- People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
- Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
- The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into…
- One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
- 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…
- Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we…
- People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege…
- Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- 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
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle