They moved so gently, that their footsteps made no noise; but there were sobs from among the group, and sounds of grief and mourning.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^1  The death of little Nell. The Old Curiosity Shop, ch.71.

A group of theunwilling, picked fromtheunfit, to dothe unnecessary.

-Harkness, Richard Long
  Definition of a committee. In the NewYork Herald Tribune, 15  Jun.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago cameto the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.

-Hellman, Lillian Florence
  Letter to  John S  Wood,19 May, on being asked to give information for the McCarthy trials. Collected in US Congress Committee Hearing on Un- American  Activities (1952), pt.8.

   Women are the only exploited group in the world who have been idealized into powerlessness.

-Jong, Erica ne¤  e Mann
  In Time.

What characterizes a member of a minority group isthat he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

-Mailer, Norman Kingsley
  Cannibals and Christians, 'A Speech  At Berkeley on Vietnam Day'.

   When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina setting which influences it, it is part of a totality that I cannot suppress. The impression you produce upon me is not thesame if I catchsight of youalone ina gardenor if Isee you in the midst of a group of other people, in a living room or on the street.

-Rosso, Medardo
Quoted in Edmond Claris De l'impressionisme en sculpture, 'Medardo Rosso' (1902).

Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.War springs from the love and loyalty that should be offered to God being applied to some God substituteöoneofthemostdangerousbeing nationalism.

-Runcie, Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron
  Sermon atThanksgiving Service after the FalklandsWar, St Paul's Cathedral, 26 Jul.