"We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep."

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Carl von Ossietzky

#Looks Quotes #World Quotes #Conscience Quotes

“The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.”
“What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.”

Source : Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2001). “Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books”, p.117, Beacon Press
“I have nothing to prove, because I am already approved.”

Source : Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.43, Multnomah
“I had long since insisted upon interpreting the things that Fate forced me to do as victories of my own will and intelligence, and now this bad habit had grown into a sort of frenzied arrogance. In the nature of what I was calling my intelligence there was a touch of something illegitimate, a touch of the sham pretender who has been placed on the throne by some freak chance. This dolt of a usurper could not foresee the revenge that would inevitably be wreaked upon his stupid despotism.”
“You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.”

Source : "On Set Interview with the Cast of IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. September 7, 2008.
“It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or less pawns. We're moved about like chessmen by circumstances over which we have no control.”
“For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.”
“The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.”

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