"A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged."

-- Czeslaw Milosz

#Betrayal Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.”
“Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.”
“(I've learned) how important it is to really evaluate your own life...to pay attention to what's going on in your own head, and to know that this is (your) life...and make conscious decisions about how you want to live it.”
“King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.”
“We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.”
“A hundred children, a hundred individuals who are people--not people-to-be, not people of tomorrow, but people now, right now--today.”

Source : Janusz Korczak (1967). “Selected works of Janusz Korczak”
“There are people in many other states who are cheering us.”

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