#mm

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker. ↗

— David Antin

#committed #composing #experimental #filmmaker #i

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue. ↗

— Mary Antin

#close #command #congregation #czar #emperor

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#consider #hesitation #his #man #material

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#common #common good #community #good #him

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. ↗

— Aristotle

#class #classes #community #control #middle

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy. ↗

— Aristotle

#day #does #happy #make #man

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#believe #immortality #marriage #should #soul

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. ↗

— Aristotle

#justly #summed #up #virtue

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#apparent failure #dazzling #failure #islam #mohammed

Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#common #engaging #fester #human #human life