Arrebatan Quotes & Sayings

Totalitarianism is not only hell, but all the dream of paradise
the age-old dream of a world where everybody would live in harmony, united by a single common will and faith, without secrets from one another. Andre Breton, too, dreamed of this paradise when he talked about the glass house in which he longed to live. If totalitarianism did not exploit these archetypes, which are deep inside us all and rooted deep in all religions, it could never attract so many people, especially during the early phases of its existence. Once the dream of paradise starts to turn into reality, however, here and there people begin to crop up who stand in its way. and so the rulers of paradise must build a little gulag on the side of Eden. In the course of time this gulag grows ever bigger and more perfect, while the adjoining paradise gets even smaller and poorer. — Milan Kundera

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths. — Dan Brown

If you want to change your life, begin by changing your words. Start speaking the words of your dreams, of who you want to become, not the words of fear or failure. — Robert Kiyosaki

I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies. — Erica Jong

The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies. — Jonathan Sacks

I'm single because I move about so much that I can't really get attached. — Rory McCann