"Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom"

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Source : "Aphorisms". Book by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880-1893.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Enemy Quotes #Slave Quotes

“To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically, I can say that photography is the art of writing with time. When you capture an image you capture not only a piece of space, you also capture a piece of time. So you have this piece of specific time in your square or rectangle. In that sense I find that photography has more to do with time than with light.”
“Focused intensity is required to win. I can't stress enough that people who took control of their finances and worked their way out of debt got mad. They got sick and tired of being sick and tired! They said, "I've had it!" and went ballistic to change their lives. There is no intellectual exercise where you can academically work your way into wealth; you have to get fired up - There is no energy in logic; this is behavior and motivation modification, and it works.”
“I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos - it was its own little ecosystem.”
“Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.”
“No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.”
“The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the regret and indignation of every spectator whose mind was not totally darkened by religious prejudice. The compositions of ancient genius, so many of which have irretrievably perished, might surely have been excepted from the wreck of idolatry, for the amusement and instruction of succeeding ages.”
“I think it was Rose Macaulay who said, "A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived."”
“Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.”

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