Quote by Charles Dickens

“...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way.”

— Ann Leckie

“Through the years of his struggle, he had learned that an apparently causeless antagonism was not hard to deal with, but an apparently causeless…

— Ayn Rand

“there were many ways to judge the acts of an institution, and the pragmatic way was not the worst, by any means.”

— James A. Michener

“It is a strange fact, but incontestable, that the philanthropist, who ardent in his desire to do good, who patient, reasonable and gentle, yet…

— Mary Shelley

“He had to learn that those who treated him in a hostile way did so out of weakness. He saw the hostility and reacted…

— Ken Follett

“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner of our…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“On the contrary, as there is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher, everything was given away,…

— Victor Hugo

“Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Nothing is worse than the coarseness and meanness we perpetrate out of timidity.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“There are human tempers, bland, glowing, and genial, within whose influence it is as good for the poor in spirit to live, as it…

— Charlotte Brontë

“good men had committed the most unspeakable atrocities imaginable in the name of a cause.”

— Ethan Cross