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“Senior Management may have been incompetent; it may have been corrupt; it was certainly full of assholes—but they were their incompetent, corrupt assholes.”

Max Barry book Company

Source: Company (2006), p. 294

“Nobody gives a crap about ethics. That’s why people like me will always be successful.”

Max Barry book Company

Source: Company (2006), p. 335

Success , People

“Where cruelty and injustice are concerned, hopelessness is submission, which I believe is immoral.”

Edward Said (1935–2003) Professor of English and literature

quoted in "Internal Exile" by Pankaj Mishra in The New Yorker, 2022

“I had never thought for a moment that I might one day be a cardinal. As I was taught since my initial formation for the priesthood, in the Church no one should consider a personal career path.”

Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo (1950) Catholic Cardinal

New Indonesian cardinal: Appointment recognizes country's Catholic minority (20 September 2019) National Catholic Reporter https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/new-indonesian-cardinal-appointment-recognizes-countrys-catholic-minority

Personality

“Production is ensured by the native working no longer as an employee, but as a free peasant, owner of his land.”

Leopold III of Belgium (1901–1983) King of Belgians

The visit of King Albert I to the Belgian Congo in 1928. Between propaganda and reality. https://www.congoforum.be/Upldocs/Het_bezoek_van_koning_Albert_I_aan_Belgi.compressed.pdf In July 1933, in a noted speech to the Senate, Leopold made a plea for the development of paysannat or indigenous agriculture in then Belgian Congo.

“The surrender of the Belgian Army compelled the British at the shortest notice to cover a flank to the sea more than 30 miles in length. Otherwise all would have been cut off, and all would have shared the fate to which King Leopold had condemned the finest Army his country had ever formed.”

Leopold III of Belgium (1901–1983) King of Belgians

Winston Churchill, We Shall Fight on the Beeches, 4 June 1940

Fate , Country , Sea

“A woman must not be violated even with the thought. A woman is the paradise to be seen that it is forbidden to touch without permission.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Una donna non deve essere violata neanche con il pensiero. Una donna è il paradiso da vedere vietato toccare senza permesso.
Source: prevale.net

“The disaster of one person’s relationship paradigm being based in compromise and the other person's relationship paradigm being based in compatibility, can be seen in conflicts taking place across every kind of relationship.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Source: tealswan.com/quotes

Personality

“Many people have decided on a subconscious level that someone only loves them if they support their dysfunction.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Source: tealswan.com/quotes

Support , People , Love

“The desire to be loved exactly as we are can get in the way of self-development, personal expansion and prevent us from making necessary changes that would make our relationships and life better.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Source: tealswan.com/quotes

Personality , Change , Way , Love

“The law of giving and receiving is simply this: In a universe where the most absolute truth is that of oneness, you can not ever take, without taking from yourself. And you cannot give without giving to yourself. That is why those who give, get back and those who take, are taken from.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Source: tealswan.com/quotes

Law , Universe , Truth