“Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.” ShouldStatesLawWealthRightsComfortRaisesPropertyExtremesMediocrity Author:James Madison
“For me, every human is a little bit an exaggerated version of a real human - in most cases, they are versions of myself. I am someone deeply motivated by extremes - the poles not only become home for me, but they also become, strangely, my comfort zones.” HumansLittlesRealHomeBitsCasesComfortLittle BitExtremesVersionsZoneComing HomeMotivatedComfort ZoneExaggeratedReal Human Author:Porochista Khakpour
“If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone cancer. Or people who dealt with family members drowning in their own bodies, in the end, suffering without any hope of modern medical science easing their pain or offering any comfort. With the absolute knowledge that they were going to die anyway. I can't quite comprehend how we could want those people to continue to suffer that extreme agony on the understanding that it is the will of a creator or some other philosophical concept.” PeopleIfsWantChildrenI CanEndsStoriesBodyPainSufferingDiesParentUnderstandingModernDyingComfortMembersConceptsAbsolutesPhilosophicalCancerCreatorExtremesBonesMedicalOfferingAgonyDrowningFamily MembersMedical ScienceChildren DyingBone Cancer Author:Kelvin Ogilvie
“It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You can read A Christmas Carol and not change in any way.” WayBookComfortExtremesBourgeoisCarolsChristmas Carol Author:Zadie Smith
“I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!” LooksMayFactsFoundMy OwnAliveComfortExtremesCowardiceDeceivingPrudenceHalfwayMy Own Life Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and don't go saying 'we all.'" Excuse me, gentleman, but I am not justifying myself with this allishness. As far as I myself am concerned, I have merely carried to an extreme in my life what you have not dared to carry even halfway, and, what's more, you've taken your cowardice for good sense, and found comfort in thus deceiving yourselves. So that I, perhaps, come out even more "living" than you.” KnowsFoundSpeakTakenFeetComfortConcernedAngryMiseryExcuseExtremesGentlemanCowardiceDeceivingStampsHalfwayGood SenseExcuse Me Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky