"Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence."

-- Abdurrahman Wahid

#Essence Quotes #People Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.”
“What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?”
“What hymns are sung. What praises said. For homemade miracles of bread?”

Source : Louis Untermeyer (1932). “Food and Drink”
“No one dances sober, unless he is insane.”
“Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.”
“I ain't never loan friends money; I give it to 'em and I don't expect to get it back. Even when he says, "I'll pay you back," I never expect it. If he gives it back, then hey, that's a feather in his cap, but I don't expect to get it back.”
“Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.”
“Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.”

Source : Ernst Toller (1937). “Look Through the Bars: Letters from Prison, Poems, and a New Version of "The Swallow Book"”

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