Andrei Lankov famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't look at myself as suffering.
Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.
When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.
I think violence can never be justified.
It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)
the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.
Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.
We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan
To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.
Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action

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