Liberality Quotes

“Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans

“I could not find any evidence that her circumstances had harmed Jane Austen's work in the slightest. That, perhaps, was the chief miracle about it. Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. Her mind consumed all impediments.”
― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

“There is clearly a feeling abroad that God smiled on our beginnings, and that we should return to them as we can. If we really did attempt to return to them, we would find Moses as well as Christ, Calvin, and his legions of intellectual heirs. And we would find a recurrent, passionate, insistence on bounty or liberality, mercy and liberality, on being kind and liberal, liberal and bountiful, and enjoying the great blessings God has promised to liberality to the poor.”
― Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books

“In the end it will be necessary, if he wants to maintain a name for liberality, to burden the people extraordinarily, to be rigorous with taxes, and to do all those things that can be done to get money. This will begin to make him hated by his subjects, and little esteemed by anyone as he becomes poor; so having offended the many and rewarded the few with this liberality of his, he feels every least hardship and runs into risk at every slight danger. When he recognizes this, and wants to draw back from it, he immediately incurs the infamy of meanness.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“War represents the seemingly endless conflict between governments seeking power and control versus individual persons seeking freedom and liberty.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Goldwater's approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes.”
― Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

“Everything to which You Grant Your Love is Yours.”
― Benjamin Aubrey Myers

“Generosity is not stupidity. The giver is a light lighter and a lifter of heads. And he is much better off after than before he gave. The law of sowing and reaping is universal. A man that does not withhold resources, gifting and favour from others, has set himself up for a harvest of the same kind but of greater proportion.

Should I be generous? Why not, if not? Whenever I am torn between liberality and stinginess, I shall gladly choose liberality.”
― Abiodun Fijabi

“Why are we so liberal towards the industry for creating products whose responsibility of environmentally-friendly disposal belongs to nobody? The cost of recycling needs to be inbuilt in the product itself - it is a change long overdue.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz