Ernesto Sabato Quotes

#1. Criminals are the most decent and least offensive people among us.

Ernesto Sabato

#2. The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy.

Ernesto Sabato

#3. When we dream with the courage of our soul, we dream sacred dreams - fresh, creative, and able to infuse us with passion and courage to act.

Alberto Villoldo

#4. I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

Ayad Akhtar

#5. On a tiny planet that has been racing toward oblivion for millions of years, we are born amid sorrow; we grow, we struggle, we grow ill, we suffer, we make others suffer, we cry out, we die, others die, and new beings are born to begin the senseless comedy all over again.

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#6. How can you have faith in human nature when you think that a sewer and certain moments of Schumann or Brahms are connected by secret, shadowy, subterranean passageways.

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#7. Greatness is so aggressive, so dramatic! Don't you think it is almost bad manners?

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#8. If they had built the Energy East pipeline to transport beer, we'd be okay.

Elizabeth May

#9. The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

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#10. All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.

Thomas Sowell

#11. Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Booker T. Washington

#12. Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?

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#13. Only those capable of envisaging utopia will be fit for the decisive battle, that of recovering all the humanity we have lost.

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#14. I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.

Nick Offerman

#15. I know what I have to do now, I've got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

Tom Hanks

#16. Vanity is found in the most unlikely places: in combination with kindness, and selflessness, and generosity.

Ernesto Sabato

#17. In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

Hannah Arendt