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“Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to ensure that my sister and I had the things we needed, and it was enough for us.”
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“Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.”
Source : Alexander Berkman (1929). “What is Communist Anarchism?”, New York : Dover Publications
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“Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.”
Source : Sophie Hannah (2009). “Little Face: Culver Valley Crime”, p.105, Hachette UK
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“I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a free State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a good thing upon a people who are unwilling to receive it. The great principle is the right of every community to judge and decide for itself, whether a thing is right or wrong, whether it would be good or evil for them to adopt it; and the right of free action, the right of free thought, the right of free judgment upon the question is dearer to every true American than any other under a free government.”
Source : Bob Blaisdell, Stephen A. Douglas (2012). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates”, p.16, Courier Corporation
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“Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.”
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“Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.”
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“Mission [is] understood as being derived from the very nature of God. It [is] thus put in the context of the Trinity, not of ecclesiology or soteriology. The classical doctrine of the missio dei as God the Father sending the Son, and God the Father and the Son sending the Spirit [is] expanded to include yet another “movementâ€: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit sending the church into the world.”
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“When Lila was born, "I felt like, now I've got a partner in crime".”