“We've ceased making progress at the top in any industry anywhere in the world . In the United States, women have had 14% of the top corporate jobs and 17% of the board seats for 10 years. Ten years of no progress.”
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Sad Quotes — page 221 of 475
“It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.”
“Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.”
“My career suffered massively because I had a reputation for being a very tabloid person.”
“The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.”
“The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.”
“A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.”
“One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.”
“I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families.”
“I miss your love, I miss your touch But I'm feeling you every day. And I can almost hear you say You've come a long way baby.”
“I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you.”
“Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.”
“Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience; for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected. Those who encourage a state of things in which the hope of gain is the principle motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold.”
“Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.”
“Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.”
“Sorrow, the heart must bear, Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there. Many a circumstance, at least, Touches the very breast. For those Whom any sent away,--he knows: And in the live man's stead, Armor and ashes reach The house of each.”
“This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top managers and bankers, a level of remuneration that is economically irrational since, as investigations in the US have demonstrated, it tends to be inversely proportional to the company's success.”
“What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.”
“If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.”
“If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.”