Stachelbeere Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to see my family, even if it meant dying with them. — Ishmael Beah

Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The crackpot rationalism of free-market economics merely relies on an abstract model of how people "must" behave. — Ellen Willis

My, my. A body does get around. — William Faulkner

The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy. — Dietrich Von Hildebrand

It is an irony that the more possessive you are, the more love you demand, the less you receive, while the more freedom you give, the less you demand, the more love you will receive. — Harold H. Bloomfield

Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;
but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day. — John Ruskin

Our weak understanding of our needs is aggravated by what Epicurus termed 'idle opinions' of those around us, which do not reflect the natural hierarchy of our needs, emphasizing luxury and riches, seldom friendship, freedom and thought. The prevalence of idle opinion is no coincidence. It is in the interest of commercial enterprises to slew the hierarchy of our needs, to promote a material vision of good and downplay an unsaleable one. — Alain De Botton

Love is a way of being, not something you give. When a person is truly loving, he is love. — Deepak Chopra

As your enemies and your friends, so are you — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian. — Immortal Technique

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts? — Mahatma Gandhi

Making laws with penalties of death, and consequently — John Locke

Life is a mind's attempt to win over other minds as long as it thinks the other minds are different from it. — Thiruman Archunan