"And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity."

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Source : Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”

Ernst Toller

#Truth Quotes #Real Quotes #Simple Quotes

“Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its center everywhere. We rise; the shapes cluster around us in welcome, dissolving and forming again like fireflies in a summer evening.”

Source : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.360, Anchor
“As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.”
“Because, if you ever been in the state pennitentary, you understand if you're not in something, then you stay out of it, you know and that's how I do.That's a easy way to stay out of it!”
“Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.”
“The difference between MUST & SHOULD is the life you want and the life you have.”
“The modern state appeals to morality, to religion, and to natural law as the ideological foundation of its existence. At the same time it is prepared to infringe any or all of these in the interest of self-preservation.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter.”
“All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.”

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