Sting/people

Famous quotes containing the words sting and/or people:

    Yet there is a mystery here and it is not one that I understand: without the sting of otherness, of—even—the vicious, without the terrible energies of the underside of health, sanity, sense, then nothing works or can work. I tell you that goodness-what we in our ordinary daylight selves call goodness: the ordinary, the decent—these are nothing without the hidden powers that pour forth continually from their shadow sides. Their hidden aspects contained and tempered.
    Doris Lessing (b. 1919)

    A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn’t believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
    John Major (b. 1943)