Herfstboom Tekenen Quotes & Sayings

This is said to civilized men who are to venture into countries where sacred cows are fed, while children are left to starve - where female infants are killed or abandoned by the roadside- where men go blind, medical help being forbidden by their religion - where women are mutilated, to insure their fidelity - where unspeakable tortures are ceremonially inflicted on prisoners - where cannibalism is practiced.
Are these the 'cultural riches' which a Western man is to greet with 'brotherly love'? Are these the 'valuable elements' which he is to admire and adopt? Are these the 'fields' in which he is not to regard himself as superior? And when he discovers entire populations rotting alive in such conditions, is he not to acknowledge, with a burning stab of pride - of pride and gratitude - the achievements of his nation and his culture, of the men who created them and left him a nobler heritage to carry forward? — Ayn Rand

Nietzsche would have put it, we need art in order not to die from the truth. — Simon Critchley

I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character. — R. Lee Ermey

If men were socialized to desire love as much as they are taught to desire sex, we would see a cultural revolution. — Bell Hooks

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I had never felt such happiness, not with one man or two or three, never felt this feeling before ... this feeling of ... completeness? Yes, that was it, completeness! I simply didn't need anyone else. — Sergei Lukyanenko

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened. — Mark Twain

[ ... ] You didn't think I'd let the backstabbing little hussy get away with it, did you? Not that I don't love Jenni, but she's the baby of the family, and she thinks she should get anything and everything she wants. Occasionally she has to be shown differently. — Linda Howard

The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Three Leahs to get to One Rachel. — Thomas Hardy

When a stock is selling at a discount to liquidation value per share, a near rock-bottom appraisal, it is frequently an attractive investment. — Seth Klarman