Rosika Schwimmer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.
-- Rosika Schwimmer

#Relationship #Patriotism #Consciousness
If brains have brought us to what we are in now, I think it is time to allow our hearts to speak. When our sons are killed by the millions, let us, mothers, only try to do good by going to the kings and emperors without any other danger than a refusal.
-- Rosika Schwimmer

#Mother #Kings #Heart
Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values as to render victory indistinguishable from defeat.
-- Rosika Schwimmer

#War #Men #Rights

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experienceâ€¦ would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.
I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.
Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.
The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.

Rosika Schwimmer famous quotes

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