"The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it."

-- Lincoln Steffens

#Government Quotes #People Quotes #Psychology Quotes

“The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the diving glory.”

Source : Andrew Murray (2005). “Humility and Absolute Surrender”, p.55, Hendrickson Publishers
“People don't fall in love so easily. So they don't hate so easily, either.”
“You become an artist to upset your family.”

Source : "Nach uns die Malflut! Theoretische Poesien". Book by Gunter Brus (p. 135), 2003.
“If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.”
“John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.”
“But why do you want to talk to me?' He is going to say: 'Because you look so kind,' or 'Because you look so beautiful and kind,' or, subtly, 'Because you look as if you'll understand....' He says: 'Because I think you won't betray me.' I had meant to get this mean to talk to me and tell me all about it, and then be so devastatingly English that perhaps I should manage to hurt him a little in return for all the many times I've been hurt.... 'Because I think you won't betray me, because I think you won't betray me....' Now it won't be so easy.”
“If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.”
“I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.”

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