"To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium."

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Eric Hoffer

#Justice Quotes #Upset Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Spaces of liberation are, in a certain way, some kind of social spaces where people can not only get together and think about something else, but also act together. If you are thinking about an elemental solidarity, you are thinking about people acting together and taking decisions together, and thereby beginning to think about what sort of society they want to create. So, there is a need for liberated spaces; that is really difficult.”
“As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.”
“Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.”
“Peter: Where are you two going? Tris: Why aren't you with your attack group eating dinner? Peter: I don't have one. I'm injured. Christina: Yeah right, you are! Peter: Well, I don't want to go to battle with a bunch of factionless. So I'm going to stay here. Christina: Like a coward. Let everyone else clean up the mess for you. Peter: Yep! Have fun dying.”
“Tell my father I wish to be his son.”
“Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.”

Source : Roger Zelazny (1981). “The Last Defender of Camelot”, Pocket
“But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the Karl Barth who so loved and understood Mozart be regarded as such.)For humor is a mysterious but unmistakable charism inseparable from Catholic faith, and neither the "progressives" nor the "integralists" seem to possess it - the latter even less than the former.”
“That's precisely the reason we need less paper and more concrete political decisions - the protection of endangeres species is not some luxury item by Gucci or Hermès, for people who have no problems.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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