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She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance, but I cannot pity her: she is white. She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it. She persisted, and her subsequent reaction is something that all of us have known at one time or another. She did something every child has done-she tried to put the evidence of her offense away from her. But in this case she was no child hiding stolen contraband: she struck out at her victim-of necessity she must put him away from her-he must be removed from her presence, from this world. She must destroy the evidence of her offense. ↗

— Harper Lee

#institutions #society #persistence

Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#feelings #judging #prayer #wisdom #persistence

it is better to be alone than to be betrayed persistently and dumped . keeping yourself dumped in a room 8x10 is better than hanging out with hypocrites . ↗

— vishal mishra

#persistence

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love. ↗

— John Piper

#death #faith #immortality #death

All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#economics

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys. ↗

— Graham Greene

#sociology

كل انسان تستطيع ان تعذره لو نظرت الى الامور بنفس المنظار الذي ينظر اليه به ↗

— علي الوردي

#sociology

Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#culture #dialogue #psychology #relationships #sociology

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly. ↗

— George Orwell

#political #ruling-class #sociological #sociology

من الواجب على الاباء ان يراقبوا ابنائهم بدقة اثناء نموهم حتى يكتشفوا المجال الذي يصلح لهم ويصلحون له فيساعدونهم فيه ↗

— علي الوردي

#sociology