James Leonard Gordon quotes

“Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse.”
-- James Leonard Gordon

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“Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which is all too practical.”
-- James Leonard Gordon

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“Kindness is the touch of an angel's hand.”
-- James Leonard Gordon

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“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”

“God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.”

“A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.”

Source : "Adrien Brody: The quiet American". Interview with Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2012.

“What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness-- a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree.”

“My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.”

“Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse.”

“In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 50), 1937.

“It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.”

“I missed the moment when time collapsed and memory was erased, replaced by finicky social experiments, lost in the blur of intoxication, sucked through multi-colored bendy-straws”

“Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.”