"As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him."

-- Robert M. Lindner

#Men Quotes #Dimensions Quotes #Revolution Quotes

“In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that Norsemen had discovered America centuries earlier, or that you really can't get credit for discovering a land already populated by indigenous people with a developed civilization. Those people are communists. Columbus discovered America.”
“The lesson I have learnt is that when a family and a business function, they function together. You have to have a family that works and a business that works and the two will end up working well alongside.”

Source : "Fiat's John Elkann Shares Family Business Views". FBNenews, December 15, 2010.
“Take two kids in competition for their parents' love and attention. Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other; the resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other; the personal frustrations that they don't dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister, and it's not hard to understand why in families across the land, the sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.”
“Power is the ability to afford not to learn.”
“The true essence of Chinese culture is sophistication, refinement, the spirit of poetry. The spirit of ink painting and calligraphy lives on forever. Calligraphy is more important than painting. Chinese always consider nature. Man is a very small part of nature. That's why in Chinese painting you see huge mountains and man very small, very humble before nature. You must be harmonious and one with nature. You don't fight it. And then there's a bit of a poetry. Of course, it's very complicated, but also very simple.”
“He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heavenâ€”at least in this lifeâ€”was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened.”
“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope”
“Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict," ... "we still have not created the state we promised them. On the contrary, our costly and valiant efforts have produced an outcome our government did not predict or intend-a failed state spinning out of control into anarchy and civil war.”

Source : "The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose" by Anthony Zinni and Tony Koltz, p. 227-228, March, 2006.

You may also like:

Anna Freud
Psychologist
Harold Laski
Economist
Julius Charles Hare
Writer
Karen Horney
Psychoanalyst
Karl Abraham
Psychoanalyst
Otto Rank
Psychoanalyst
Sidney Hook
Philosopher
Theodor Reik
Wilhelm Stekel
Psychologist