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Pope John Paul II6 quotes
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. — Pope John Paul II · 1995The tree was already rotten. I just gave it a good shake and the rotten apples fell. — Pope John Paul II · 1996You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers. — Pope John Paul II · 1986Allow me to depart to the house of the Father. — Pope John Paul II · 2005The culture of life means respect for nature and protection of God's work of creation. In a special way it means respect for human life from the first moment of conception until its natural end. — Pope John Paul II · 1993It would be simplistic to say that Divine Providence caused the fall of communism. It fell by itself as a consequence of its own mistakes and abuses. It fell by itself because of its own inherent weakness — Pope John Paul II · 1994Lech Walesa2 quotes
You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love? — Lech Walesa · 1988We are ready for the dialogue. — Lech Walesa · 1983Paul Tillich2 quotes
The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself. — Paul Tillich · 1951The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God. — Paul Tillich · 1965Rosa Luxemburg2 quotes
Freedom is always freedom for the one who thinks differently. — Rosa Luxemburg · 1919Revolution do not stand still. — Rosa Luxemburg · 1918Christa Wolf1 quote
It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing-it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human species is based on. — Christa Wolf · 1996Gunter Grass1 quote
In those days, when every male who could stand half-way erect was being shipped to Verdun to undergo a radical change of posture from the vertical to the eternal horizontal. — Gunter Grass · 1959Isaac Bashevis Singer1 quote
Buildings will collapse, power plants will stop generating electricity. Generals will drop atomic bombs on their own populations. Mad revolutionaries will run in the streets, crying fantastic slogans. I have often thought that it would begin in New York. This metropolis has all the symptoms of a mind gone berserk. — Isaac Bashevis Singer · 1968Leopold Kronecker1 quote
God made integers, all else is the work of man. — Leopold Kronecker · 1886Nicolaus Copernicus1 quote
Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if we only face the facts, as they say, "with both eyes open." — Nicolaus Copernicus · 1543