Dominikos Petrakis Quotes & Sayings

One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the level of a child's understanding if they are to arouse the masses to historic actions. A childish illusion, fixed in the minds of all children born in a certain decade and hammered home for four years, can easily reappear as a deadly serious political ideology twenty years later. — Sebastian Haffner

The style of kindness has changed. — Louise Burfitt-Dons

Possessed by the grasp of quality and connoisseurship, he knew and measured the worth of man's visible heritage and determined, in the midst of constant change, to preserve and enhance that heritage so that it might be visible to anyone with eyes to see."30 — Robert M. Edsel

Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy. — Ralph Connor