Penunjang Demokrasi Quotes & Sayings

Reading is ignorant. It begins with what it reads and in this way discovers the force of a beginning. It is receiving and hearing, not the power to decipher and analyze, to go beyond by developing or to go back by laying bare; it does not comprehend (strictly speaking), it attends. A marvelous innocence. — Maurice Blanchot

No one has seen God, but I have seen your eyes. (Personne n'a vu Dieu, - Mais j'ai vu tes yeux.) — Charles De Leusse

Solaris a blaze of freedom raging. — R.J. Askew

There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome. — Luc De Clapiers

You bastard, he thought, almost affectionately, watching the minuscule protoplasm fluttering on the slide. You dirty little bastard. — Richard Matheson

No, sweetheart. I expect you to submit. They're only padded because I can't bear the thought of so much as bruising you. I take the gift of your trust very seriously. — R.K. Lilley

One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt. — Mary Karr

A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life. — Wendell Berry

In his Comedy, Dante Alighieri names Virgil, with many tokens of respect, as his teacher, and yet as Herr Meinhard remarks, makes such ill use of him: clear proof that even in the days of Dante one praised the ancients without knowing why. This respect for poets one does not understand and yet wishes to equal is the source of the bad writing in our literature. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

She'd rather be anonymous in a big city than infamous in a small town. — Lorelei James

A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation. — Alain De Botton

For in the end laws are just words on a page - words that are sometimes malleable, opaque, as dependent on context and trust as they are in a story or poem or promise to someone, words whose meanings are subject to erosion, sometimes collapsing in the blink of an eye. — Barack Obama

Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live." — Edward Young

Silence is a source of Great Strength. — Lao-Tzu