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Communism2 quotes
The tree was already rotten. I just gave it a good shake and the rotten apples fell. — Pope John Paul II · 1996It 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 · 1994Fall of communism2 quotes
The tree was already rotten. I just gave it a good shake and the rotten apples fell. — Pope John Paul II · 1996It 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 · 1994Freedom2 quotes
Freedom is always freedom for the one who thinks differently. — Rosa Luxemburg · 1919Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. — Pope John Paul II · 1995Politics2 quotes
Revolution do not stand still. — Rosa Luxemburg · 1918We are ready for the dialogue. — Lech Walesa · 1983Abortion1 quote
The 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 · 1993Adaptability1 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 · 1996Capital punishment1 quote
The 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 · 1993Conflict resolution1 quote
We are ready for the dialogue. — Lech Walesa · 1983Death1 quote
Allow me to depart to the house of the Father. — Pope John Paul II · 2005Decline of religion1 quote
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 · 1988End of the world1 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 · 1968Facing death1 quote
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 · 1951God1 quote
The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God. — Paul Tillich · 1965Heaven1 quote
Allow me to depart to the house of the Father. — Pope John Paul II · 2005Mathematics1 quote
God made integers, all else is the work of man. — Leopold Kronecker · 1886Minority rights1 quote
Freedom is always freedom for the one who thinks differently. — Rosa Luxemburg · 1919Modern life1 quote
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 · 1988Nature of God1 quote
The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God. — Paul Tillich · 1965Nature of freedom1 quote
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. — Pope John Paul II · 1995New York City1 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 · 1968Political progress1 quote
Revolution do not stand still. — Rosa Luxemburg · 1918Political reconciliation1 quote
We are ready for the dialogue. — Lech Walesa · 1983Religion and politics1 quote
It 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 · 1994Revolution1 quote
Revolution do not stand still. — Rosa Luxemburg · 1918Scientific progress1 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 · 1543The Jewish people1 quote
You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers. — Pope John Paul II · 1986The human condition1 quote
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 only constant is change1 quote
Revolution do not stand still. — Rosa Luxemburg · 1918War1 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 · 1959World War I1 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 · 1959