Quotes
Authors
Jacob Burckhardt

"The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour this relationship in perpetuity. The state has learned from the merchants and industrialists how to exploit credit; it defies the nation ever to let it go into bankruptcy. Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief."

Source : Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.188, Routledge

Jacob Burckhardt

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“We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.”
“Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character.”
“Mecca has been banned for Christians for hundreds of years.”

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“The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.”
“Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.”

Source : "Goodbye Texas, hello Woking!" by William Leith, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2006.
“That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Australia on the plane and I thought it was my mum and it was Woody Allen just checking to see if I wanted to be in his movie.”
“The pain comes from more than the facts of circumstance, or the deeds of others. It comes from within. From understanding what we lost. It comes from knowing how foolish we were - vain, arrogant children - when we thought ourselves happy. It comes from knowing how fragile and doomed the old ways were, just when we thought them and ourselves, secure!. The pain comes from knowing we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again.”

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