Foerderverein Palliativstation Landshut Quotes & Sayings

We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant. — Julius Nyerere

The quintessential emblem of religion - and the clearest manifestation of the perversity that lies at its core - is the sacrifice of a child by a parent.
Almost all religious faiths incorporate the myth of such a sacrifice, and some have actually made it real. Lucretius had in mind the sacrifice of Iphigenia by her father Agamemnon, but he may also have been aware of the Jewish story of Abraham and Isaac and other comparable Near Eastern stories for which the Romans of his times had a growing taste. Writing around 50 BCE he could not, of course, have anticipated the great sacrifice myth that would come to dominate the Western world, but he would not have been surprised by it or by the endlessly reiterated, prominently displayed images of the bloody, murdered son. — Stephen Greenblatt

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived. — David Bowie

Night is the other half of life, and the better half. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Some people live life and others talk about it. — Rita Mae Brown

Praying is sending an SOS to the heavenly unknown. — Mehmet Murat Ildan