"They exÂpectÂed to lose. And thereÂfore, they lost. [..] PeoÂple who start thinkÂing deep dark thoughts in the midÂdle of a war start exÂpectÂing to lose."

-- Michael Scott

#War Quotes #Dark Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Design that moves others comes from issues that move you.”
“Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.”
“A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.”
“It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.”
“The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.”
“A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought”
“I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations to the Muhammadans. Surely they cannot be much longer hidden. Injustice founded on religious rancour and national conceit cannot be perpetuated forever. The Arab has left his intellectual impress on Europe. He has indelibly written it on the heavens as any one may see who reads the names of the stars on a common celestial globe.”

Source : "A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe". Book by John William Draper, Harper & brothers, p. 356, 1863.
“You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.”

Source : Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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