Acthev

“Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“Why do people often feel bad in good environments and good in bad environments? Why did Mother Teresa think that affluent Westerners often seemed poorer than the Calcutta poor, the poorest of the poor? The paradox comes to pass because the impoverishments and enrichments of a self in a world are not necessarily the same as the impoverishments and enrichments of an organism in an environment.”
― Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

“If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle

“Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.”
― Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book