Deon Meyer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.

  • I wish to fill in the gaps which have so far always remained unanswered in the souls of men as burning questions, and which never leave any serious thinker in peace, if he honestly seeks the Truth.

  • I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

  • I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

  • Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

  • But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.

  • Words are good servants but bad masters.

  • We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

  • The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.

  • Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.