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Us Quotes by J M Coetzee
- Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an animal fighting for…
- I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.
- It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what…
- Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we…
- As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14…
- You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt, myself, then, that…
- No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul…
- Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
- To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes,…
- A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.
- I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.
- I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will…
- We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
- Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong