"I don't want any funny business, and above all I don't want to be dragged into other people's funny business. If it's to be my head on the block, I want to know that it's doing there, and not that it's some stupid things that other people have done."

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Source : Hans Fallada (2009). “Every Man Dies Alone”, p.65, Melville House

Hans Fallada

#Block Quotes #Stupid Quotes #People Quotes

“Human rights for everybody, there is no difference. Live on! And be yourself!”

Source : Song: Same Love
“What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.”
“Every fighter have a plan until he's been beaten”
“With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi.”

Source : William Alexander Percy (1973). “Lanterns on the Levee; Recollections of a Planter's Son”, p.4, LSU Press
“Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable”
“We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.”
“I'm absolutely flooded with a raucous energy to get out into the world and tell my story again. I feel like this is spring. After a period of shriveling, out come the leaves.”
“Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.”

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