Quotes & Quotations

“Mitt avfall är ifrån den Historiska skolan – emedan jag blivit allt mer övertygad, att historien ej kan ge – men väl modifiera principen för – handling, och att denna tvärtom måste vara varje tidevarvs egen insats.“

//Erik Gustaf Geijer

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“Please don’t put your life in the hands of a rock ‘n’ roll band and throw it all away.“

//Oasis

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“The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends.”

//Orhan Pamuk

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“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.“

//John Stuart Mill

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“I cannot do other than think and live as a free man“

//Kostas Georgakis

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“He who would like to learn to fly one day must first learn to walk.“

//Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The tyrant always talks as if he’s preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them.“

//Ramman Kenoun

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“Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.”

//George Santayana

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“Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.“

//Lord Acton

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“We will have world government – whether we like it or not. The only question is whether world government will be achieved by conquest or consent.“

//James Warburg

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“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need? I felt that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body.“

//Ayn Rand

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“Libertarianism is the enemy of all racism.”

//Ron Paul

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“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.“

//George Orwell

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“As long as we try to live beyond our means we are destined to live beneath our means.“

//Ron Paul

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“Great intellects are skeptical.”

//Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”

//Adolf Hitler

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“You do not transform yourself into a tiger overnight if you have been a cat for far too long.“

//Roberto Zahler

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“You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed, and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you just how deep the rabbit hole goes.“

//The Wachowskis

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“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.“

//Goethe

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“The mind is like a restless animal that prays to be fed.“

//Unknown

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“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.“

//Albert Einstein

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“Somewhere in the misty frontiers of politics, the extreme left-wing is able to shake hands with the Anarcho-Capitalists and the Libertarians, smoke some weed, and agree on that the old world was a pretty dull fraudulent place … “

//Rolf K. Nilsson

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“We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well.“

//Bill Clinton

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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.“

//Mark Twain

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“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.“

//Benjamin Franklin

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“No, I don’t feel guilty. But you feel pissed off because you didn’t do it first.“

//Noel Gallagher

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“The higher the mountain, the better the view.”

//Unknown

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“We want to be loved; failing that, admired; failing that, feared, failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. Our soul abhors a vacuum. At all costs it longs for contact.“

//Doctor Glas (Hjalmar Söderberg)

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“Non scholae sed vitae discimus (We learn not for school, but for our life to come).“

//Seneca

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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.“

//Eleanor Roosevelt

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“I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.“

//Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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“Every successful writer has tried to find his purpose in the bottom of a bottle at some point“

//Carl-Mikael A. Teglund

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“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.“

//Marie Curie

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“And this to mend, alas, no art is able, ’cause nature made it so irreparable.“

//Anne Bradford

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“Hellre rådlös än göslös.“

//Per-Mikael Teglund

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“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.“

//Lord Tennyson

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“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man!“

//Alexander Pope

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“Although thy terrors rise to th’highst degree, I still am where I was. A Fig for thee.“

//Edward Taylor

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“Han havde været på flugt fra blondhundene, og nu var han selv blevet en gal hund.“

//Morten Ramsland (Hundehoved)

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“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.“

//Winston Churchill