David Benatar Quotes
We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born child—pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form these harms will take or how severe they will be, but we can be sure that at least some of them will occur. None of this befalls the nonexistent. Only existers suffer harm.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
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I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.
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The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.
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Order and tidiness is the first law of Heaven.
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After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.
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You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are a direct result of some tenant's poverty.
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When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.
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None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.
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I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.
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Having two back-to-back No. 1's is unbelievable.
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I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
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My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
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The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.
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We don't go to parties much. I am very serious about my work. But I also have two children, and I wanted to do that job well.
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You can do it! You believe! Feel it in your gizzard. You are a creature of flight. Fly, my children. Fly!
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We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born child—pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form these harms will take or how severe they will be, but we can be sure that at least some of them will occur. None of this befalls the nonexistent. Only existers suffer harm.
