“Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.”
― Why Marx Was Right
― Why Marx Was Right
“Who can save a child from a burning house without taking the risk of being hurt by the flames? Who can listen to a story of loneliness and despair without taking the risk of experiencing similar pains in his own heart and even losing his precious peace of mind? In short: “Who can take away suffering without entering it?”
― The Wounded Healer
― The Wounded Healer
“You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.”
― The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society
― The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society
“She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.”
― Pygmalion
― Pygmalion
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