Akram

“The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― John Steinbeck, The Short Novels of John Steinbeck

“The measure of a woman's power is the degree of suffering with which she can punish her lover.”
― Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask

“Who wants to be good if he has to be hungry too?”
― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

“To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing”
― Raymond Williams