"You hold in your hands the future of the world."

-- Raymond Poincare

#War Quotes #Hands Quotes #World Quotes

“If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.”
“â€ŽWhen you point your finger at someone, anyone, it is often a moment of judgement. We point our fingers when we want to scold someone, point out what they have done wrong. But each time we point, we simultaneously point three fingers back at ourselves.”
“Romantic Egoist What's better, an idiot who never tries... or an idiot who at least takes a shot?”
“Use your will to conquer fears and weaknesses!”
“The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.”

Source : Peter Ackroyd (2011). “Foundation: The History of England”, p.47, Pan Macmillan
“What would be the worst that could happen to me? Would they hang me?”
“I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.”
“They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would prove that man, the human species - we, in short - had the potential to construct an enormity of pain, and that pain is the only force created from nothing, without cost and without effort. It is enough not to see, not to listen, not to act.”

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