"Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other."

-- Elie Wiesel

#Peace Quotes #Remember Quotes #Mankind Quotes

“It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.”

Source : Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.255, Yearling
“People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about manâ€™s pastâ€¦the past shows clearly that we all have a common origin and that our differences in race, colour and creed are only superficial.”
“I had Paterson, and The Art Lover, to guide me for The Tales of Horror (written from 1988-'97 and published in 1999), but I still was so lost, back then, as I tried to understand what I was writing and how it went together. There was a draft of that manuscript that had all these brightly colored paper clips on the pages so I could visualize what I saw as the book's themes and threads - that was a long time ago.”
“I love Chicago. It was an awesome place to grow up. It's a big city but it doesn't feel like one. I can't imagine that if I had kids I would raise them anywhere else besides Chicago.”
“When we use the word domestic [terrorism], we discount its actual impact as political terrorism, which is, of course, political violence meant to impact an audience outside of the immediate victims.”
“People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko 's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence.”

Source : "Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich". Book by Solomon Volkov, New York: Limelight, pp. 158-9, 2006.
“There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.”
“No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline”

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