“If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.”
John Fowles book The Magus
Source: The Magus
Speaking on Stossel http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/ (2009). <br class="br">Context: Words are supposed to hurt. That's considered a legitimate way of fighting things out. And what did it replace in the historical scene? It replaced actual violence. Words are supposed to be free so we CAN actually fight things out, in the battleplace of ideas, so we don't end up fighting them out in civil wars. If we try to legitimately ban anything can hurt someone's feelings, everyone is reduced to silence.
“If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.”
John Fowles book The Magus
Source: The Magus
“We can't help everyone but everyone can help someone”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Sometimes attributed to Reagan, but the earliest citation attributes the saying to Dr Loretta Scott, 1,600 Quotes & Pieces of Wisdom That Just Might Help You Out When You're Stuck in a Moment https://books.google.com/books?id=quX0r9SkVj8C&pg=PA41&dq=%22we+can%27t+help+everyone%22+%22everyone+can+help+someone%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMIk-28w6WkyAIVR5SICh3HOwON#v=onepage&q=%22we%20can't%20help%20everyone%22%20%22everyone%20can%20help%20someone%22&f=false (2003), p. 41 <br class="br">Attributed
“When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less."
"Unless you love them.”
Shirley Hazzard book The Transit of Venus
Source: The Transit of Venus
Cary Grant (1904–1986) British-American film and stage actor
Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)
Hanif Kureishi (1954) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist
Source: Intimacy: das Buch zum Film von Patrice Chéreau
Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 509
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation