Pathitikos Quotes & Sayings

It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation. — Simon Bolivar

Some people like to throw objects, such as glasses of water or rocks, but nail painting is more positive. If more world leaders would take it up there would be less overall suffering, in her opinion. — Margaret Atwood

If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics — Paul Auster

The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger and more lasting than the individual. — Marcia Siegel

Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred. — Ralph Metcalfe

I have never been married. The married women of my acquaintance rarely speak of their husbands at all, except as a nuisance to be borne. — Ashley Gardner

To see the beautiful and mystical in the other worlds, one first must see the beauty of one's soul — Mimi Novic

It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals, the phenomenon is called 'denial'; in entire cultures and nations, it's usually called 'history. — Joyce Carol Oates

Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things. — George Santayana

The state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute. — Petra Kelly