"Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand."

-- George Steiner

#Wall Quotes #Book Quotes #Winter Quotes

“The foundation of all human knowledge, the beginning of human consciousness, must be that each and every one of us is an object of love. Before you know if you have red hair or brown, before you know if you are black or white, before you know of what religion you are a part, you have to know that you are loved”
“In my first start-up, I had an initial advertising budget of $5 per day total. That would buy us 100 clicks per day. At $5 per day, marketing people scoffed and said that is too small to matter. But if you think about it, to an engineer, 100 real humans everyday giving your product a try means you can really start improving.”
“I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if itâ€™s something fantastic. Theyâ€™re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy. Even if they know itâ€™s fake they can believe anything. People are accustomed to being told what to believe in.”
“... vicars of vacillation ...”
“I would say emotionally we've all turned into these sort of toxic, shallow, angry, polarized demons screaming at each other from across echo chambers. My whole thing is that I'm trying to get underneath the anger into the truth that's underneath it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.”
“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.”

Source : George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2917, e-artnow
“All people go to Allah after their death, but the happy person is the one who goes to Allah while still alive.”

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