Quote by Germaine Greer
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even tho

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. – Germaine Greer

Other quotes by Germaine Greer

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark…. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. – Germaine Greer

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Libraries
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Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. – Germaine Greer

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Security
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Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life. – Germaine Greer

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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. – William Dean Howells

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Tragedy

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions. – Aristotle

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Tragedy

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? – George Eliot

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Tragedy

Mans extremity is Gods opportunity. – John Flavel

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Tragedy

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I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights. – Megawati Sukarnoputri

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I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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Conformity

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice. – Marc Maron

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Freedom

God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him? – Martin Buber

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