"The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system."

-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

#Power Quotes #World Quotes #Individual Quotes

“The Divine has loved me as mother, as father, and as friend, behind all friends. I searched for that one Friend behind all friends, that one lover whom I now see glimmering in all your faces. And that friend never fails me.”
“Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you”
“There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.”

Source : "'The Obama Doctrine': Examining White House Foreign Policy". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 10, 2016.
“I believe the brain is like a muscle - like any other it can be improved.”
“Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.”
“Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.”
“Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise.”

Source : Drew Karpyshyn (2011). “Path of Destruction: Star Wars Legends (Darth Bane): A Novel of the Old Republic”, p.168, Del Rey
“I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.”

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