Classic Quote by George Eliot

“And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite;…

— Toni Morrison

“There is no suffering, except remorse, so fatal as that which comes from the consciousness of strangled ambition, blasted hope, stifled aspiration. To be…

— Orison Swett Marden

“If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do…

— Richard Kearney

“For many years I've been ashamed, mortally ashamed, of having been, even with the best intentions, even at many removes, a murderer in my…

— Albert Camus

“The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently, the heart's…

— Ivan Goncharov

“Death is very close, he thought. When you think in this manner. I can feel it, he decided. How near I am. Nothing is…

— Philip K. Dick

“There is a killer in every cowardly man, waiting for the right set of circumstances when the time has been drained of the possibility…

— M.D. Lachlan

When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

— Hannah More

“Even gentle people recognize that sometimes the decision not to kill is a decision to die.”

— Orson Scott Card

“I am incapable of telling you not to repine and rebel, because I have so, to my cost, the imagination of all things, and…

— Henry James

“...Time that is intolerant Of the brave and the innocent, And indifferent in a week To a beautiful physique, Worships language and forgives Everyone…

— W.H. Auden

“We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die…

— Shane Claiborne