#erin

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#counter #defend #differing #expression #freedom

It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#just #new #pathway #previously #question

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#higher #higher level #level #raise #socialism

I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism. ↗

— John Major

#entering #i #mechanism #regret #shred

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#nothing #one thing #only #opium #physical

He was a great thundering paradox of a man. ↗

— William Manchester

#man #paradox #thundering

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#binds #common #compassion #future #hope

For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#been #behind #bothering #closed #decisions

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can. ↗

— Og Mandino

#back #cold #danger #doing #gusto

I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#because #hate #i #implies #overweight