Pearls mean tears. – Doris Lessing
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. – Doris Lessing

Pearls mean tears. – Doris Lessing
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. – Doris Lessing
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. – Doris Lessing
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, theres a layer of people who run everything. But we –were just peasants. We dont understand whats going on, and we cant do anything. – Doris Lessing
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later. – Jonathan Sacks