Doris Lessing

"All political movements are like this — we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes…"

"Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and wom…"

"We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known. They have known for thousands of years that to lock a sick per…"

"What matters most is that we learn from living."

"Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind …"

"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."

"The New York Times archive for Doris Lessing"

"There are certain types of people who are political out of a kind of religious reason I think it's fairly common among socialists: They are, in fact, God-seekers, looking for the kingdom of God on ear…"