Medicinaeg Szs Gp Nzt R Quotes & Sayings

The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a locked room long past midnight, is next morning translated, with the literalness of utter innocence, into the throwing of the bomb, the shouting of the proud slogan, the dragging away of the young dreamer-doer, still smiling, to the dungeon and the firing squad. — Christopher Isherwood

Religion may be best be described as an emotion resting on a conviction of a harmony between ourselves and the universe at large. — J.M.E. McTaggart

We won't get any growth in Greece by just imposing cuts. What I would prefer is a special economic zone for Greece. — Martin Schulz

We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc. In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being. — Alain Badiou

Why to women have to decide between family and career if men don't even think about it? — Sheryl Sandberg

It only takes one person, one voice from somewhere beyond, to save a life. — Kirsten Arcadio

Inside the maize mill, the owners no longer had any use for a broom. The hungry people kept the floors cleaner than a wet mop. At the beginning of the month, the mill was packed full of those waiting for fallen scraps. The crowd would part long enough to allow women to pass with their pails of grain. As the machine rumbled and spit a white cloud of flour into the pails, the multitude of old people, women, and children watched intently with eyes dancing like butterflies. Once the pail was pulled away, they themselves on hands and knees and scooped the floor clean. Afterward, old women would rattle their walking sticks up inside the grinder as if ringing a bell, collecting the loose flour that drifted to the floor. — William Kamkwamba

Religion is just a path for finding truth: Religion is not truth. It is just a path. And different people follow different paths. — Anita Moorjani

I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me. — Shane Claiborne

Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith. — Brennan Manning

We are promised abundance of all good things
yet we are rich only in hunger and thirst. What would become of us if we did not take our stand on hope, and if our heart did not hasten beyond this world! — John Calvin

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Your compassion travels beyond your own inner circle. And then you breathe out an alternative version where you mentally and emotionally and psychologically purify the poisons. So indeed, the generative idea is in the crux of this practice and of my propensity toward poetry, which is a practice of the imagination. — Anne Waldman