Stjepko Bucan Quotes & Sayings

In a society caught up in the race for the better, limits on change are experienced as a threat. The commitments to the better at any cost makes the good impossible at all costs. Failure to renew the bill of goods frustrates the expectation of what is possible, while renewal of the bill of goods intensifies the expectations of unattainable progress. What people have and what they are about to get are equally exasperating to them. Accelerating change has become both addictive and intolerable. At this point the balance among stability, change and tradition has been upset; society has lost both its roots in shared memories and its bearings for innovation. Judgement on precedents has lost its value. — Ivan Illich

Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is of the fleas. Her waves will drown him, her fire burn him, and her earth devour him, her storms and lightning smite him, as if he were only a dog. — John Burroughs

It is human nature that when you see something work well, you do more of it. If, in its ceaseless quest for revenue, government sees a seemingly harmless method of raising funds without causing much inflation, it will grab on to it. — Murray Rothbard

The way people choose to think and feel about the world. Each ideology has its own version of the truth." "So, who is right?" Saeed smiled and looked into his son's eyes. "The one that is just and better still, the one that is just and kind. — AbdulKarim Al Makadma

You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you."
You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die. — William Goldman

Sophie was beginning to realize that there was nothing to be done about actors: they would always end up sleeping with each other. They had always done so, and they probably always would. — Nick Hornby

And the Jedi?" Lyra asked. "Also doing what they can. But remember, Dooku is one of their own, and he's a crafty opponent. At times he seems to be able to read our minds, if not simply outguess us. — James Luceno

If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real. — Josh Homme

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people. — Robert W. Service

I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't. — Jenny Downham

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction ... — Simone De Beauvoir

Why do some of us turn menacing?' she whispered. — Lois Lowry

Everyone has degrees of madness in them, everyone has a story to tell. — Bryony Gordon

The greatest gift of surrender was that it helped me to realize that it is arrogant of me not to forgive myself when God forgives me. — Iyanla Vanzant

We can promise to try. — Chris Colfer