"That penny farthing hell you call your mind"

-- Samuel Beckett

#Mind Quotes #Pennies Quotes #Hell Quotes

“Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.”
“Here is a tip for all you young people drinking wine. With pasta, drink white wine. With steak, drink red wine. And if you're vegan, you're annoying.”
“And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.”
“I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it.”
“When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people.”
“Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices, I don't see it.”
“The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we seek to condemn and punish, have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that power has ever paid to reason.”

Source : Opening statement for the prosecution before International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany, 21 Nov. 1945
“It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.”

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