#eli

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#build #compromise #doubt #focusing #free

I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#am #because #believe #comes #earth

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#backed #belief #capitalism #destroyed #effective

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#become #believe #blind #moment #see

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#only #religion #though #versions

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#don quixote #gentleman #him #mad #made

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#cruelty #delicious #find #hurt #only

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#drunken #fact #happier #man #more

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#clear #desire #except #livelihood #man

Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#different #even #every #might #novelist