„If you can show that something is to a person's advantage, they have an attractive reason for doing that thing.“

„How many advantages can one person have? I'm a white man!“

—  Louis C.K. American comedian and actor 1967

Chewed Up

„Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves.“

—  Ayn Rand Russian-American novelist and philosopher 1905 - 1982

„There's absolutely no one in the world that can tell you can't do something. You're the only person that can set that limitation.“

—  Andrew Biersack American singer-songwriter 1990

„The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.“

—  John Rawls, kniha A Theory of Justice

Zdroj: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter VI, Section 59, pg. 388

„I've always wanted to be part of the royal family because there are great advantages to being royal. If you're royal, whatever you do is very interesting. Whatever you do, people are very interested in it. Even if you do something very boring, people are still interested in it. If a royal person does something extremely boring, people say, "Oh, isn't it interesting that he's doing something extremely boring." If I do something extremely boring, people say, "Oh how extremely boring"“

—  Peter Cook British architect 1937 - 1995

its not so good.
"Royalty" (1964)
E. L. Wisty

„It comes to me as a desire to have something in the world. And again to quote Blake, 'It is better to murder an infant in the cradle than to nurse an ungratified desire.'... You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen.... when you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.“

—  Carl Andre American artist 1935

Zdroj: Artists talks 1969 – 1977, p. 15

„One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.“

—  Douglas Coupland Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and graphic designer 1961

„I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could.“

—  Anne Rice, The Wolf Gift

Zdroj: The Wolf Gift

„One of the reasons I've hesitated to be an actor is you have to do talk shows and interviews. I'm really a private person and not into telling everything about me. Michelle [Pfeiffer] told me to think of doing publicity as the work and acting as the fun part.“

—  Alison Lohman American actress 1979

Interview in USA Today, 7 Oct 2002

„Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard“

—  Marian Keyes Irish writer 1963

Zdroj: Last Chance Saloon

„Unless the person is aiming upward, there is nothing you can do about their situation. And this seems to be about that initial choice between good and evil. Once someone comes to therapy, they've already done something. They've already said: I have a problem, conceivably I can fix it, and I need to do something about it. And so half the work is already done before they show up, because they've already said that 'things aren't as good as they could be, and I want to do something about it.' The question is, can you do anything about that person who is not at that state? You can't. All you can do is serve by example. But until the person has decided, on their own, that they're wrong (that's why they're suffering – there's something wrong about what they are doing) and that they want to fix it… I think that hammering against their situation often makes it worse. That's part of free will. I do not think that people can learn unless they admit that they're wrong.“

—  Jordan Peterson Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology 1962

„If this person slept with your girlfriend, she would never be attractive to you again.“

—  Chuck Klosterman Author, Columnist 1972

Recognizing Your Archenemy

„When confronted on the street by the police, a common emotion for a person to feel is fear. There is nothing wrong with this. In fact, it's quite healthy, but do not show it to the cop. If the cop realizes you are afraid of him, he will take full advantage of the situation and play on your fear. This doesn't mean act belligerently, and, for God's sake, do not be a high school or college lawyer, and explain to the cop what he can and cannot do. He can do anything, he's got the gun.“

—  William Powell (author), kniha The Anarchist Cookbook

"Postscript", p. 154.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)

„If I wanted to doubt then I could doubt endlessly. But at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.“

—  Orson Scott Card American science fiction novelist 1951

Homecoming saga, The Call Of Earth (1992)

„I am not the type of person who thinks in terms of "if only" or "could have, would have, should have". It is what it is and everything happens for a reason. When a person thinks "if only I would have known such and such" it shows a certain amount of fear or lack of trust that everything is as it should be. I try to always do my best and if I look back and think I didn't do my best, then that is the only thing I acknowledge and then try to change. One of my favorite expressions is, "Everything is okay in the end and if it's not okay, it's not the end."“

—  Charlene Wong Canadian figure skater 1966

" Charlene Wong: Everything is okay in the end and if it's not okay, it's not the end", in Lifeskate.com (15 December 2008) http://www.lifeskate.com/skate/2008/12/charlene-wong-everything-is-okay-in-the-end-and-if-its-not-okay-its-not-the-end.html

„Only do it if I can test her personally. That will not be something I enjoy doing either.“

—  Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946

regarding acknowledging Elizabeth Warren as Native American 2018-10-15 Trump promised $1 million to charity if Warren proved her Native American DNA. Now he’s waffling. Amy B Wang and Deanna Paul Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/15/trump-dared-elizabeth-warren-take-dna-test-prove-her-native-american-ancestry-now-what/
2010s, 2018, October

„According to Confucianism, the ideal life contains a large dose of respect for traditional ways. All these ideals can be fleshed out and painted in more or less attractive colours. Yet there is something uncomfortable about them, if only because there is little reason to suppose that there is any such thing as the ideal life. Since different people have different tastes and interests, and different cultures encourage different concerns, it seems unlikely that any 'ideal life' will be heavily contextualized: ideal for this person in these circumstances, perhaps, but not much more.“

—  Simon Blackburn British academic philosopher 1944

Zdroj: Think (1999), Chapter Eight, What To Do, p. 278-279

„It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.“

—  Ernest Hemingway American author and journalist 1899 - 1961

„You show signs of levity, and that is the one thing not permitted here. This place is for serious persons only.“

—  R. A. Lafferty American writer 1914 - 2002

Tiresias, Ch. 7
Space Chantey (1968)
Kontext: You show signs of levity, and that is the one thing not permitted here. This place is for serious persons only. If you are not serious now, by hell you'll get serious pretty quick!