"Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things."

--

Georges Bataille

#Sacrifice Quotes #Sacred Quotes

“Venezuela has changed forever.”
“I do not want Greece to become the negative paradigm for the others - i.e., "make sure you follow exactly what we tell you, otherwise you will be like Greece."”

Source : "An interview with Antonis Samaras, Greek prime minister, on austerity and unrest". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.washingtonpost.com. September 14, 2012.
“Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.”
“How many lessons there are and how little they are taken”
“Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with...”
“I'm always having fun in training and in boxing. I think it's because boxing is my passion.”
“When you hear a word from God it resonates in the pillars of your soul.”
“The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent.”

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