#sm

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. ↗

— George Santayana

#any #anywhere #evil #existence #optimism

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. ↗

— George Santayana

#conventions #courtesy #doubts #far #kind

The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#constructed #course #criticism #idea #inferiority

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#adolescence #atmosphere #beginning #being #critical

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#coordinate #different #different world #international #into

Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#being #our #our people #people #persists

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#defends #equilibrium #itself #morbid #organism

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#fascism #kills #number #them #victims

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#being #believed #her #kept #nothing

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#judaism #me #point #point of view #tribal