"People in the East looked toward the West with longing. They would have liked to have the same comforts, the same goods, the same chances. They saw a system that demanded of them sacrifices with nothing but promises for the future."

-- Stefan Heym

#Sacrifice Quotes #People Quotes #Promise Quotes

“Jews talk a lot about God. But actually their god, just like Marx said, is money. Cash!”

Source : Interview with Alex Haley, Playboy, April 1966.
“How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes.”
“The videos are sometimes the only way for people across the country and different places to see and hear the music. They may not get the same radio stations or they don't get the same TV channels, they don't have the same MTV that plays the same music. People will use to the Internet and that's why YouTube and stuff like that is so important.”

Source : Source: thecomeupshow.com
“One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.”
“I only wanted to help my people.”
“All men, and all created nature, have been at work, from the beginning of time to this day, to produce the circumstances which now influence our actions. AS soon as an act has been performed, it becomes independent of the individual performing it, and forthwith gives birth to some other act, which last gives birth to still another, and so they continue, and will continue, until the law of cause and effect shall cease to operate.”

Source : William Batchelder Greene (1843). “The Doctrine of Life: With Some of Its Theological Applications”, p.7
“Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a mans change of life.”
“I know of nothing more exciting than war.”

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