Dominique Lapierre Quotes

#1. Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace.

George Jonas

#2. I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Joseph Brodsky

#3. Your museum of pain. Your sanctuary of justifiable indignation.

Wally Lamb

#4. Prayer is pouring your heart to the one you love.

Sunday Adelaja

#5. I don't ever want to live in a world where something like mercy ... or maybe it's compassion ... is the wrong choice.

Jonathan Maberry

#6. So I told myself I would give it up, even prayed at night for it to be taken away, not knowing that 'it' was love.

Paul Monette

#7. Looking back, it seemed like it should have been harder to lose someone, or have them lose you, especially when they were in the same state, only a few towns over.

Sarah Dessen

#8. War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#9. Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

Adlai Stevenson I

#10. Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.

Albert Camus

#11. Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?.

Sherwood Anderson

#12. The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

Christopher Hitchens