Quotes

[Hooligan69]

“There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.”

― Leo Tolstoy

 

[Hooligan69]

“The men in Washington seem unable to accept that there are more poor people than rich people in the world. They do not recognize that poor people, in the late twentieth century, cannot endure poverty and disease and ignorance forever. When minimal social justice is long denied, the poor will rebel. If rebellion can be crushed - as is perhaps possible in a very small country like El Salvador - it will rise again later. Nicaragua can be bombed flat, and then what? A success story like Vietnam? [1986].”

― Martha Gellhorn, The Face of War

 

[Hooligan69]

Everybody in the Soviet Union knew the expression “this is not a phone conversation,” which expressed a wish to discuss something in person because they were afraid somebody else might be listening. The “somebody else” was the state and its vast networks of informers.

- Andrei Soldatov, The Red Web: The Kremlin's War on the Internet

 

[Colonel Valerio]

 

[Colonel Valerio]

Just trolling Etagloc a bit with this one

“Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of women’s silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt.” ​

― Thomas Sankara​

 

[Dalit]

“Love deems this world worth rescuing.”
― Philip Yancey

“Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

 

[Dalit]

Just because I recalled this today and do like Firefly.

 

[Black Violet]

 

[Hooligan69]

"Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

 

[Renegade]

Terror doesn't rely on the bang,
it relies on the fear of the bang.

Peter Power

 

[Lisa]

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts —Winston Churchill

 

[elsbet]

“The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place… and I don´t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently, if you let it. You, me or nobody, is gonna hit as hard as life. But ain’t about how hard you hit… It’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward… how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That´s how winning is done.”
— Rocky Balboa

Truth.. I like this one.

 

[Colonel Valerio]

“Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.”

Giordano Bruno

 

[Hooligan69]

"The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel."
- Kate Atkinson, Transcription

 

[Dalit]

"The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel."
- Kate Atkinson, Transcription

So true! How was that book? Never got to finish it because it was due at the library. Liked what I read though.

 

[DesertRose]

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.,

 

[Hooligan69]

So true! How was that book? Never got to finish it because it was due at the library. Liked what I read though.

Found the quote on Goodreads website and bought the book a day later. Gimme some time to read it.

 

[Frank Badfinger]

 

[Hooligan69]

"It's a sad commentary on our age that we find Dystopias a lot easier to believe in than Utopias: Utopias we can only imagine, Dystopias we've already had."

- Margaret Atwood

 

[DesertRose]

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb