"A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold."

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Source : Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.190, Island Press

Richard E. Byrd

#Confusion Quotes #Mind Quotes #Black Quotes

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
“We Germans are the most universal, the most European people of Europe.”

Source : "Die europäische Triarchie". Book by Moses Hess, 1841.
“Remember when the music Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire, For we believed in things, and so we'd sing.”
“We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down the street and steal an orange juice, you get arrested.”
“Human beings are still fish.”

Source : YouTube Chanel "Living Waters"/ "Evolution vs. God", www.youtube.com. August 6, 2013.
“The atom bomb fueled the entire world that came after it. It showed that indiscriminate killing and indiscriminate homicide on a mass level was possible ... whereas if you look at warfare up until that point, you had to see somebody to shoot them or maim them, you had to look at them. You don't have to do that anymore.”
“Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.”
“The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the superior power of men. It therefore provides strong guarantees for the rights of the accused but essentially no guarantees for the rights of the victim. If one set out by design to devise a system for provoking intrusive post-traumatic symptoms, one could not do better than a court of law.”

Source : Judith Lewis Herman (1992). “Trauma and recovery”, Basic Books

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