"In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service."

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

Ernst Toller

#Quiet Quotes #Kind Quotes #Silent Quotes

“Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.”

Source : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”
“I don't have dating tips.”
“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...”
“I am all emptiness and futility. I am an empty stranger, a carbon copy of my form. I can no longer find what I'm looking for outside of myself. It doesn't exist out there. Maybe it's only in here, inside my head. But my head is glass and my eyes have stopped being cameras, the tape has run out and nobody's words can touch me.”
“It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.”
“We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.”
“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”
“It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.”

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