He did not seek to assume the mantle of Elijah, to shed a light of the future upon the misty turmoil of events or resolve the prevailing light into a single flame; there was in him nothing of the prophet or the mystic. He was a simple soul who loved, and that was all.

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.

Mario Monti

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.

John Oldham

I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.

Robert Plant

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

Dan Savage

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Elizabeth Bowen

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Peter Drucker

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

Emma Goldman

When you deplore the conditions in the world, ask yourself, am I part of the problem or part of the solution?

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kegilaan adalah suatu yang langka dalam individu--tapi dalam kelompok, partai politik, negara, epos, ia adalah peraturan...

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

E. M. Cioran

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

Claude Bernard

When art wins, everyone wins.

Jerry Saltz