"We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt and that it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past. . .while we silence the rebels of the present."

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Source : "Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent". Book by Henry Steele Commager, 1954.

Henry Steele Commager

#War Quotes #Past Quotes #Silence Quotes

“Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving.”
“The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think that gives me somewhat deeper roots.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.”
“Everyone can err, but Stalin considered that he never erred, that he was always right. He never acknowledged to anyone that he made any mistake, large or small, despite the fact that he made not a few mistakes in the matter of theory and in his practical activity.”
“Today we rule Germany, tomorrow, the world.”
“Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity.”
“We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.”
“You probably think Iâ€™m at a disadvantage. I promise you, Iâ€™m not.”

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