#wit

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego. ↗

— William Kennedy

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My witness is the empty sky. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#sky #witness

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#against #cooperating #evil #helps #involved

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#democracy #political #process #provides #social

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#effort #form #game #golf #law

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#movement #revolutionary #theory #without

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#even #ever #god #indeed #within

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#another #another man #consent #enough #good

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#certain #consider #ever #finding #fortunate

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words? ↗

— Marcel Marceau

#lives #moments #most #moving #our