#without

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#cannot #choose #literature #lose #made

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#beautiful things #friendship #life #rare #self-interest

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#am #communist #i #i am #local

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#country #i #man #myself #regard

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. ↗

— John Calvin

#even #freedom #god #ignorance #inadvertently

It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#bought #dollars #easy #fighter #having

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. ↗

— Albert Camus

#ethics #man #upon #wild #wild beast

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. ↗

— Albert Camus

#bad #certainly #course #free #free press

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. ↗

— Albert Camus

#alone #anyone #cher #days #dreadful

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. ↗