Quote by

I think the highest purpose of fiction is to show that all people are fundamentally worthy of mercy.

I think the highest purpose of fiction is to show that all people are fundamentally worthy of mercy.
– Tom Bissell

Related Quotes:

  1. Instead of hating, my heart cries mercy! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! – Phindiwe Nkosi
  2. Truth is the highest knowledge.Faith is the highest courage.Reason is the highest wisdom.Love is the highest virtue. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  3. An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts. – Tom Bissell
  4. Reading gives one something to think about other than one’s self. – Tom Bissell
  5. Reading gives one something to think about other than one’s self. – Tom Bissell
  6. Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom. – Tom Bissell
  7. Of that time, there is still much we do not know. – Tom Bissell
  8. Show me good,i show you better, show me bad, i show you worse… – phoxgrimm
  9. Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. – Bryan Stevenson
  10. Things go wrong for a purpose. Just know the purpose, and just understand how to distinctively use the purpose for a great purpose! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  11. Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. – Alan Moore
  12. Change is fundamentally in the hands of People Cause there is no Greater Alternative to People’s Awakening – Venkat Gandhi
  13. She rides as a man, goes unveiled as a man, fights as a man. Let her prove herself worthy as a man, worthy of her weapons and of our friendship. – Tamora Pierce
  14. Pure is honourable.Honourable is right.Right is lovely.Lovely is admirable.Admirable is excellent.Excellent is prasie worthy.Praise worthy is peace. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  15. I’ve decided she’s worthy of something more special, something worthy of my powers. – Kelsey Ketch
  16. I am more than less, but less than worthy. Worthy to be heard, but heard in silence – Paul Morabito
  17. I am more than less, but less than worthy. Worthy to be heard, but heard in silence – Paul Morabito
  18. Once you know you are worthy and your story is worthy, you fight for other stories. – Jedidiah Jenkins
  19. Oh Lord of melons, of mercy, though I am not ready, nor worthy, I am climbing towards you. – Mary Oliver
  20. Beautiful. Worthy of the highest love. Powerful and perfect. Beautiful is my daughter. – Rachelle Dekker
  21. Mirrors have three purposes. To show you who you are. To show you who you were. And to show you who you want to be. – Dan Pearce
  22. Mercy is mercy. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  23. If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God’s mercy. – Billy Graham
  24. Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? – Pierre Troubetzkoy
  25. Fundamentally leadership is about change and influencing people to change. – Pearl Zhu
  26. Do not seek popularity or self-affirmation; just show people God’s love and mercy, and help them to prosper and succeed. Simply serve God – Pastor Adelaja Sunday
  27. What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn’t behave as he would have done in a book? – Julian Barnes
  28. General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. – Marvin Minsky
  29. The words you do not speak are as important to the impact you make on other people as the words you do not speak – Tom too tall Cunningham – Tom Cunningham
  30. The purpose of a purpose is a purpose – Thabiso Monkoe
  31. Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
  32. The purpose of a purpose is to fulfill a purpose – Thabiso Monkoe
  33. It’s ever so important to believe in what you do, trust your ability to create and show yourself worthy. Never sell yourself short. – Simon Zingerman
  34. Leadership is fundamentally about credibility. – Rick Crossland
  35. Never in mankind’s history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought. – James Rozoff
  36. Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies – Elizabeth Gilbert
  37. The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice. – Alain de Botton
  38. Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh ????er, the greatest of feasts. – James Beard
  39. When black fury meets white denial, you have the combustible and fundamentally changed race relations we live in today. – Ferial Haffajee
  40. The fundamental Law of The Universe states that all human beings are fundamentally the same and therefore have an equal right to live in equality. – Anthony Pan

More Quotes

, , , , , , ,