"It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live"

-- Maximilien Robespierre

#Country Quotes #Regret Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a purpose is to study the universe by the methods of science, without consoling ourselves with fairy tales about its future, or about our own.”
“I don't like the collusion between high fashion design and high street. You have to know where you stand. I belong to luxury fashion. That's what I've always felt and embraced. I like the best quality, the best fabrics and the most creative field in fashion. I will stay consistent. I belong to this world.”
“You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.”
“It dosnt matter how many mr. and mrs. johnsons are anti war- the actuall killers who know how to use the weapons are not.”
“Senator Lugar will also travel to Libya for official meetings as a part of the president's initiative to move toward more normal relations reflecting that country's renunciation of terrorism and abandonment of its weapons of mass destruction and longer range missiles.”
“Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted...”
“History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul”

Source : "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 57), 1986.
“Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.”

Source : Connie Willis (2011). “The Doomsday Book”, p.326, Spectra

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