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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.


Nadine Gordimer

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ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one s...
NADINE GORDIMER I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
NADINE GORDIMER The facts are always less than what really happened.
NADINE GORDIMER Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
NADINE GORDIMER From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by m...
NADINE GORDIMER Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
NADINE GORDIMER The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mi...
NADINE GORDIMER Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
NADINE GORDIMER In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest ven...
NADINE GORDIMER Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret...
NADINE GORDIMER There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
NADINE GORDIMER The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending p...
NADINE GORDIMER If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here...
NADINE GORDIMER Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearin...
NADINE GORDIMER Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that af...
NADINE GORDIMER The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mi...
NADINE GORDIMER Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow t...
NADINE GORDIMER Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
NADINE GORDIMER Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
NADINE GORDIMER Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small...
NADINE GORDIMER People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
NADINE GORDIMER A desert is a place without expectation.
NADINE GORDIMER The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, wr...
NADINE GORDIMER Books don't need batteries.
NADINE GORDIMER The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the de...
NADINE GORDIMER A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
NADINE GORDIMER She filled her house with blacks, and white parsons who went around preaching Jesus was a revolution...
NADINE GORDIMER That was one of the things she held against missionaries: how they stressed Christ's submission to h...
NADINE GORDIMER Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
NADINE GORDIMER The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
NADINE GORDIMER Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter
NADINE GORDIMER He's a colleague and a friend, and it's also a wonderful thing that the Nobel Prize has come to Sout...
NADINE GORDIMER From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my ch...
NADINE GORDIMER I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
NADINE GORDIMER I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earn...
NADINE GORDIMER Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and y...
NADINE GORDIMER Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves wh...
NADINE GORDIMER ... what it really was like to live a life determined by the struggle to be free, as desert dwellers...
NADINE GORDIMER But a human being, she, she, cannot simply exist; she is a hurricane, every thought bending and cros...
NADINE GORDIMER I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
NADINE GORDIMER People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
NADINE GORDIMER Ernest Hemingway was in love with Africa and as with others in such a state of emotion ... he constr...
NADINE GORDIMER If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN There's a vast space between being simply human to being truly humane.
RASHEED OGUNLARU If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The moment WE realize our mistakes, our sins, our selfishness, the trouble we gave others, the pain ...
NEHA KOTHARI What truly makes a human as an intelligent being is our thinking capability.
PEARL ZHU I cannot imagine a truly beautiful world without courtesy being integral to its culture.
HRISHIKESH AGNIHOTRI In 1987 or '88, Etienne and Nadine came with a manuscript, ... It was all handwritten, with illustra...
ROGER WATERS Every human being learn by studying or living!
PHILIP T. M. Kindness is a state every human being should be living in permanently.
KēVENS We remain neutral on [DreamWorks] shares due to concerns about mixed film quality and a lack of cata...
LOWELL SINGER We remain neutral on [DreamWorks] shares due to concerns about mixed film quality and a lack of cata...
LOWELL SINGER I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; an...
MALCOLM X Nadine found herself standing in front of a row of streaming faces, like waxworks of forgotten celeb...
PASCAL GARNIER Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it.
PETER O'TOOLE The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. A human being, a pastor or a prophet cannot bless your business more than God himself
SUNDAY ADELAJA But a blank he cannot be: there are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.
THOMAS CHALMERS I know everybody thinks we have a hidden agenda, but the town wants to remain neutral. This is not s...
BOB ANDERSON Until we know the results of those investigations, we should not take position on one side or the ot...
PATRICE CLERC This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.
DON JOHNSON In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain...
ZACHARY TAYLOR A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Every human being learn by studying or living! So, who was the better teacher?!
PHILIP T. M. I've traveled more this year than any other living human being, and if I'd traveled any more I would...
WALTER F. MONDALE Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; bu...
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES With higher inflation still a tangible threat, officials cannot rule out the possible need to move b...
ROBERT DICLEMENTE To serve the human race
is to serve a neutral and peaceful leadership,
Petra Hermans
PETRA HERMANS A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, ...
EDMUND BURKE The whole team is excited about the NEC Championship in Disney. It will truly be a neutral course wi...
BUD NASON A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can...
ROBERT KENNEDY Work is making a living out of being bored.
KARL LAGERFELD Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest
LOUIS MCHENRY HOWE In December, when we were just getting pounded by every other candidate, I asked Terry to step in be...
HOWARD DEAN If everyone would experience blindness once in their lives, then they would truly know what it means...
KēVENS But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
LOUISE BOGAN Living life automatically, means missing a lot of life automatically.
JIM GENOVESE Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best livin...
BO BENNETT You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent huma...
MALCOLM X Life is a Long Journey between Human Being and Being Human. Let's take at least one step
each d...
DRISHTI BABLANI Human being living at the level of biomass will comply with the changing fashion and beauty standard...
SUNDAY ADELAJA A nation cannot be truly great without a moral compass.
MARCIA FUDGE Let's dream for living in a world where animals are equally respected as humans. It's also high time...
CHANDRABABU V.S. I believe each of us has a mission in life, and that one cannot truly be living their most fulfilled...
BLAKE MYCOSKIE Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent
VICTOR HUGO It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for last...
BETTE DAVIS It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasti...
BETTE DAVIS I truly feel like I'm a living Wonder Woman.
NIKKI BELLA You cannot follow the trend of living independently of the realities of the kingdom of God without b...
SUNDAY ADELAJA What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of cour...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a livin...
BUCKMINSTER FULLER We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Being compassionate has no barriers. Human, the luckiest living being, is instinctively gifted with ...
CHANDRABABU V.S.

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