Logo
Quote by Barbara Kingsolver
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, wh

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves. – Barbara Kingsolver

Other quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people cant even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. – Barbara Kingsolver

Category:
Hope
Author
Barbara Kingsolver
Read Quote

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. Its the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone elses pain is as meaningful as your own. – Barbara Kingsolver

Category:
War
Author
Barbara Kingsolver
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Society
category

A society that has made nostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. – Christopher Lasch

Category:
Society

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society. – Robert Casey

Category:
Society

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. – Jean Baudrillard

Category:
Society

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world. – Ibrahim Babangida

Category:
Society

Random Quotes

I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music. – John Stamos

Category:
Music

Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp. – From a Washington Post reader submission word contest

Category:
Language
[T]he common thread that binds nearly all animal species seems to be that males are willing to abandon all sense and decorum, even to risk their lives, in the frantic quest for sex. – Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer

Category:
Sex

A lovely horse is always an experience…. It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. – Beryl Markham

Category:
Horses