Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 170

Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.

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“By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time…”

— Thomas Szasz

“So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.”

— J.K. Rowling

“What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters; for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.”

— J.K. Rowling

“That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we…”

— J.K. Rowling

“The wizarding community is as prone to hysteria and prejudice as the Muggle one, and the character of Lupin gave me a chance to examine those attitudes.”

— J.K. Rowling

“There is something about a mass of human beings. There's always an edge in a crowd. Always.”

— J.K. Rowling

“I didn't realize quite how liberal I was until I was asked to make passionate comedic choices as opposed to necessarily successful comedic choices.”

— Stephen Colbert

“The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday — no matter what happened Tuesday.”

— Stephen Colbert

“I believe democracy is our greatest export. At least until China figures out a way to stamp it out of plastic for three cents a unit.”

— Stephen Colbert

“You know what I hate about people who criticize you? They criticize what you say, but they never give you credit for how loud you say it. Or how long you say it.”

— Stephen Colbert

“Language has always been important in politics, but language is incredibly important to the present political struggle. Because if you can establish an atmosphere in which…”

— Stephen Colbert

“It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore.”

— Stephen Colbert

“I went down there and did exactly what I wanted. I didn't expect it to be some sort of cultural-political line in the sand.”

— Stephen Colbert

“We decided that my character had a pre-show tradition, like a ritual, which was to sing the lyrics to "I Want You To Want Me" by Cheap Trick into the mirror.”

— Stephen Colbert

“If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore — and you actually have power over those people.”

— Stephen Colbert