Szameitschen Quotes & Sayings

Not too many professions out there that value forgetfulness. Prostitution, maybe. Politics, of course. — Jonathan Nolan

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. — John Ruskin

In this belief system Nazism had replaced hallmarks of Christianity with the qualities of a good Nazi: strength rather than weakness; domination rather than humility; hatred rather than love; dependence on Hitler rather than dependence on Christ, not to mention the importance of blood, race, and soil rather than the sacraments, and a sense of eternity. — Dean G. Stroud

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure. — Lawrence Durrell

When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway. — Donnie Wahlberg

As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life". We were revolutionaries in opposition, and have remained revolutionaries in power. To make the individual sacred, we must destroy the social order which crucifies him. And that problem can only be solved by blood and iron. The man who recognizes the revolutionary historic importance of the very fact of the existence of the Soviet system must also sanction the Red Terror. — Leon Trotsky

The eyes that see the soul are different from the eyes that see the self. We see soul when we are in the mystery. We see self when we are in the events. The coach must have eyes for both. — Julio Olalla

El Sueno de la razon produce monstrous. (The sleep of reason breeds monsters) — Francisco De Goya

For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them. — Frantz Fanon