"The development of the national spirit in its present form leads into blind alleys. Some condition must be found which preserves the life of the nation, but rules out the fatal rivalry among nations."

-- Kathe Kollwitz

#Development Quotes #Spirit Quotes #Blind Quotes

“Fear - jealousy - money - revenge - and protecting someone you love.”

Source : Frederick Knott (1953). “Dial "M" for Murder”, p.7, Dramatists Play Service Inc
“Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.”
“Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.”
“Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.”
“My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.”

Source : "Joanna Lumley: Animals Are Just Like Us". Interview with Dan Mathews, www.peta.org. December 6, 2010.
“That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like magic?”

Source : Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.28, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.”
“Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.”

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