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Beauty1 quote
For the sublime and the beautiful and interesting, you don't have to look far away. — Hedda Sterne · 2007
For the sublime and the beautiful and interesting, you don't have to look far away. — Hedda Sterne · 2007
God of forgiveness, do not forgive those murderers of Jewish children here. — Elie Wiesel · 1995
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death. It's indifference. — Elie Wiesel · 1986
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death. It's indifference. — Elie Wiesel · 1986
Nihilism1 quote
I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass-which is better than trying to fill them. — Emil Cioran · 1973
Oppression1 quote
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. — Elie Wiesel · 1986
I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass-which is better than trying to fill them. — Emil Cioran · 1973
For the sublime and the beautiful and interesting, you don't have to look far away. — Hedda Sterne · 2007
No society, certainly not a large and heterogenous one, can fail in time to explode if it is deprived of the arts of compromise, if it knows no ways of muddling through. No good society can be unprincipled; and no viable society can be principle-ridden. — Alexander M. Bickel · 1962
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. — Elie Wiesel · 1986
Politics1 quote
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. — Elie Wiesel · 1986
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. — Elie Wiesel · 1986
God of forgiveness, do not forgive those murderers of Jewish children here. — Elie Wiesel · 1995
For the sublime and the beautiful and interesting, you don't have to look far away. — Hedda Sterne · 2007