Jaan Kaplinski Quotes & Sayings

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The hands of Hitler were filthy, but those of the United States were not clean. Our government had accepted, was still accepting, the subordination of black people in what we claimed was a democratic society. Our government threw Japanese families into concentration camps on the racist supposition that anyone Japanese - even if born in this country - could not be allowed to remain free. — Howard Zinn

And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe. — Audre Lorde

I think it's always difficult no matter how similar your characters are to yourself to get into that mindset, because however much they are similar to you, they're not you. — Asa Butterfield

You can never be free
as long as you have an ego to defend. — Anthony De Mello

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies. — Jon Stewart

It's a matter of the heart ... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my students very seriously. Harvard should have a bona fide commitment to me. — Margaret Geller

We'd been twelve years old together. We'd shared the convictions that only twelve year olds can share, that love is simple and powerful and easy and inevitable. — Emily Horner

For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory. — Anna Gunn

This universe is formed out of both consciousness forces and matter. While the study of matter has been the domain of traditional science, the study of consciousness is the science of spirituality. — Shriram Sharma

That is the onslaught. It has been going on a long time, I argue, but in the 20th century humans have certainly perfected it, extending domination to every single corner of the earth and our Homo sapiens population to more than 6 billion - until no place is untouched by despoliation. — Kirkpatrick Sale

I try to make concrete that which is abstract. — Juan Gris