Semiotik Roland Quotes & Sayings

Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet. — Patch Adams

The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. The face of the new art. The square is a living, regal infant. The first step of pure creation in art. — Kazimir Malevich

Anytime I've ever been involved in a non-linear story, you see it in a linear manner first, just to make sure it makes sense, and then you chop it up and move it around. — Zack Snyder

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man. — Michael Servetus

There's no such thing as altruism. — Andrew Tobias

You will go on blundering, for only he who does nothing avoids errors. — Janusz Korczak

a mammy's boy who never married and who keeps a shotgun in case of trespassers, but loves his trees, loves his woodland, and honors a covenant set down by his great-uncle, which was that no tree should ever be wantonly cut down. — Edna O'Brien

A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again — Simone Weil

(A murderer about their victim
He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been there to see how he enjoyed the real thing. — P.D. James

If you want to fight patriarchy but won't fight religion, you're not fighting patriarchy. — Ali A. Rizvi

One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic. — Rachel Kushner

First of all, I wish you love, and that by loving you may also be loved.
But if it's not like that, be brief in forgetting
And after you've forgotten, don't keep anything. — Victor Hugo

In life it is training rather than birth which counts. — Ihara Saikaku

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? — Gilbert K. Chesterton