Thiersee Quotes & Sayings

What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art. — Oscar Wilde

Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear. — Ban Ki-moon

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world. — Jesus Christ

An army cannot be built without reprisals. Masses of men cannot be led to death unless the army command has the death-penalty in its arsenal. So long as those malicious tailless apes that are so proud of their technical achievements - the animals that we call men - will build armies and wage wars, the command will always be obliged to place the soldiers between the possible death in the front and the inevitable one in the rear. And yet armies are not built on fear. The Tsar's army fell to pieces not because of any lack of reprisals. In his attempt to save it by restoring the death-penalty, Kerensky only finished it. Upon the ashes of the great war, the Bolsheviks created a new army. These facts demand no explanation for any one who has even the slightest knowledge of the language of history. The strongest cement in the new army was the ideas of the October revolution, and the train supplied the front with this cement. — Leon Trotsky

We have reached a profound point in economic history where the truth is unpalatable to the political class - and that truth is that the scale and magnitude of the problem is larger than their ability to respond - and it terrifies them. — Hugh Hendry

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical. — Georges Braque

Mackenzie raises her hand proudly. "I have a bagina."
I smirk. "Yes, you do sweetheart. And someday, it's gonna help you rule the world. — Emma Chase

He realized how much he wanted to take her pain away — Neil Gaiman

There exists a world. In terms of probability this borders on the impossible. It would have been far more likely if, by chance, there was nothing at all. Then, at least, no one would have began asking why there was nothing. — Jostein Gaarder

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto