"It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this."

-- Alexander Herzen

#Goal Quotes #Insane Quotes #Generations Quotes

“Love knows no pain, no sacrifice is too much for it; it is an absolute one-pointed state of mind toward the well-being of the other person who is called lover or beloved.”
“The lights are better, safer, and start at around $20. They use less battery power. Normally you get 8 to 10 hours of battery life on a standard light. You can get 150 hours with the LED.”
“In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (1972). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”
“To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.”
“You don't have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life's too short to have it any other way.”
“The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox.”
“I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.”
“It was an odd relationship, but then she was an extraordinary woman: a prioress who doubted much of what the church taught; an acclaimed healer who rejected medicine as practised by physicians; and a nun who made enthusiastic love to her man whenever she could get away with it. If I wanted a normal relationship, Merthin told himself, I should have picked a normal girl.”

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