"I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead."

-- Homer

#Home Quotes #Men Quotes #Departed Quotes

“All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.”
“God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that anyone had been able to find in over a century and a half-but because the political state and corporate economy considered the Western spiritual tradition too dangerous a competitor. And it is.”
“I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who dont have the advantages that we have.”

Source : “What is your counsel?” by Anthony S. Fauci, bigthink.com.
“to comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough.”
“We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.”

Source : Edward Sapir (1949). “Culture, Language, and Personality: Selected Essays”, p.69, Univ of California Press
“The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people? Why do some people have to starve, while there are surpluses rotting in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?”
“Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?”
“We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.”

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