#once

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#forced #his #inevitably #lie #man

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#everything #lies #making #mankind #only

If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#because #behave #conceive #conversation #hard

I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#become #children #concerned #i #incorrect

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere. ↗

— Abdolkarim Soroush

#been #coined #concept #energy #known

People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs. ↗

— Abdolkarim Soroush

#any #basic #basic needs #concern #first

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. ↗

— Abdolkarim Soroush

#coin #concepts #constructs #equating #explain

We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems. ↗

— Abdolkarim Soroush

#break #components #concepts #consist #define

Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#found #how #intimidated #know #makes

It's become like an urban myth. I don't know her. I don't know anybody she knows. I was standing there at the party by myself for an hour and then I left. Once I got those auditions, I worked really hard. Nobody did me any favors. ↗

— Shannyn Sossamon

#anybody #auditions #become #did #favors