"I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul."

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Source : Bobby Sands (1982). “Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands”, Irish Amer Book Company

Bobby Sands

#Soul Quotes #World Quotes #May Quotes

“During the Cold War era, the issue was the containment of Soviet influence, and we tolerated many an authoritarian regime as long as they were useful to us in this respect.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just - terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil. Evil is the willingness to do damage to the other; its maximal expression is murder, but it includes a great deal of subtle and not-so-subtle injuries as it advances to that extreme. Evil acts reduce the other to an object, a being to its component parts, and obliterate subjectivity. Evil's breeding ground is a lack of empathy.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“I have seen countless people make a choice to be confident. If you don't naturally feel bold and confident, you can choose an attitude of confidence.”
“Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.”
“Trying to find a heart that's not walking away.”

Source : Song: Ships In the Night, Album: Young Love, 2011
“Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.”
“The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.”

Source : "Does Reason Lead to Atheism or Theism?". "Reasonable Faith Podcast" with Kevin Harris, www.reasonablefaith.org. July 23, 2012.
“I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore.”

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