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Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#story #unhappiness #conflict

The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time. ↗

— Gary Malone

#creationism #religion #religious-fundamentalism #science #stupidity

There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, because it results in self-hatred. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#guilt #impotence #iraq-war #leftism #pathology

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve. ↗

— Stefan Collini

#education-system #humanities #education

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ↗

— Paulo Freire

#conflict #hands #means #neutral #powerful

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#conflict

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#revolution #society #time #conflict

I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it's hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do that, it consumes you again. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#conflict

I am very comfortable with conflict, be it of the legal or mortal kind. My father was a mediator, a bridge maker. I am a grave maker. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#wrath #conflict

I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring. ~Shin ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#conflict #conflict