"The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history."

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Source : Czeslaw Milosz, “Child Of Europe”

Czeslaw Milosz

#Change Quotes #Passion Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.”
“President Bush demanded that Kerry apologize. Can you imagine that -- Bush demanding an apology for someone stumbling over his words? ... Kerry should have tried the Bush strategy: say so many stupid things, no one cares anymore.”
“I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.”
“Every Left-wing hysteria of my lifetime has turned out to be untrue. Every single one”
“If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to the good cause.”
“There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.”
“Well, most women are full to the brim, that's all...We are, most of us, ready to explode, especially when our children are small and we are so weary with the demands for love and attention and the kind of service that makes you feel you should be wearing a uniform with "Mommy" embroidered over the left breast, over the heart...If a stranger had come up to me and said, "Do you want to talk about it? I have time to listen," I think I might have burst into tears at the relief of it.”
“Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.”

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