Quotes

“A witty saying proves nothing.” Voltaire – “One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.” Virginia Woolf – “When something seems “the most obvious thing in the world,” it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.” Bertolt Brecht – “An idea becomes false the moment one becomes satisfied by it.” Alain – “There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.” Hannah Arendt – “When around you, you hear the word “Jew” pronounced, be on guard, they are speaking about you.” Frantz Fanon – “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.” Frederick Douglass – “Silence is the authentic mode of speaking.” Claude Lanzmann – “Before you know what kindness really is – You must lose things… ” Naomi Shehab Nye – “If you have come here to help me, then don’t waste your time. But if you have come here, because your liberation is bound up with mine, then come, let us join in the struggle together.” Australian Aborigine Activists – “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” Martin Luther King – “When you know nothing, you say a lot. When you know something, there is nothing to say./Tell them that there is nothing to understand.” U.G. Krishnamurti – “I used to think the mind was the most wonderful organ in the body. Then, I realized who was telling me that.” Bertrand Russell – “What the eye can perceive isn’t worth seeing.” St. Exupéry – “The passionate desire to conclude is one of humanity’s most pernicious and sterile manias” – Flaubert