Grief works its own perversions and betrayals; the shape of what we have lost is as subject to corruption as the mortal body...

Barry Unsworth


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The heart is a vital organ, but it is a faulty guide to conduct. It is the mind makes judgements and comparisons, furnishes evidence on which ideas of truth can be founded.

Barry Unsworth


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No latitude makes any difference to what men will do to other men, whether for gain or in the name of justice.

Barry Unsworth


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Those confiding their pain cannot know at the outset how much they will be required to relive it.

Barry Unsworth


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But that sacred hunger we spoke of justifies all.

Barry Unsworth


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The kind of truth that can be asserted by argument had lost all glamour, all lustre, for him, seeming no more now than another aspect of that ancient urge - much older than the desire for truth - to command attention, dominate one's fellows.

Barry Unsworth

Mots clés truth argument



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The flood of cheap manufactures, for which the people have no need,destroys their industries. They become dependent on this trade and the demand for goods can only be met by enslaving their fellows.

Barry Unsworth

Mots clés walmart



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It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it.

Barry Unsworth

Mots clés money capitalism free-enterprise



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The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former . . .

Barry Unsworth

Mots clés power morality belief god



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Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way

Barry Unsworth

Mots clés suffering



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