"Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty."

-- David Gemmell

#Grateful Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Nadir Quotes

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”

Source : Doctor Faustus act 5, sc. 1 (1604).
“Civilization after civilization, it is the same.Â The world falls to tyranny with a whisper.Â The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability.Â In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with.Â There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue.Â The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin.Â And people die.”
“Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.”

Source : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.47, Verso
“Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.”
“There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition”
“The consideration of man's body has not changed to meet the new conditions of this artificial environment that has replaced his natural one. The result is that of perceptual discord between man and his environment. The effect of this discord is a general deterioration of man's body, the symptoms of which are termed disease.”
“And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow.”
“You are afraid to die, and youâ€™re afraid to live. What a way to exist.”

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