Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 392
General Quotes
“The most fun things in life are either immoral, illegal or they make you fat.”
Reference is to a remark of Francisco Pelsaert, who visited the Mughal court in India in the time of Jahangir. Quoted in The position of Hindus under the Delhi Sultanate, 1206-1526 by Kanhaiya Lall Srivastava, quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 390
“Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.”
Source: Our Lady of the Flowers
“(About the workplace) Tyrants who get into power make life miserable for everyone.”
page 31 of Developing Talents by Temple Grandin and Kate Duffy
Speech delivered in Finney Chapel at Oberlin College (7 February 1957), as reported in "When MLK came to Oberlin" by Cindy Leise (The Chronicle-Telegram; January 21, 2008) http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2008/01/21/when-mlk-came-to-oberlin/
1950s
“Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable.”
Aphorism 102
Les Caractères (1688), De l'Homme
“An immoral society betrays humanity because it betrays the basis for humanity, which is memory.”
"Building a Moral Society", Chamberlin Lecture at Lewis & Clark College (1995)
Context: An immoral society betrays humanity because it betrays the basis for humanity, which is memory. An immoral society deals with memory as some politicians deal with politics. A moral society is committed to memory: I believe in memory. The Greek word alethia means Truth, Things that cannot be forgotten. I believe in those things that cannot be forgotten and because of that so much in my work deals with memory... What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.
“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.”
