#hum

Das war ein Vorspiel nur; dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen." (Almansor) ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#books #bücherverbrennung #freedom-of-thought #human-rights #meinungsfreiheit

And for once, Donald Rumsfeld, in the news at the time over the Iraq war made sense to me: "As we know," he said, famously, "there are known knowns-things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns-things we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns- things we don't know we don't know. ↗

— Benjamin Mee

#politics #change

To think or not to think? That is the new question. ↗

— Nadina Boun

#humor #logic #reason #satire #thinking-for-change

The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.' My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said. My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#women #change

Hey, it's ten in the morning!' says Person, yelling at two farmers dressed in robes in the distance. 'Don't you think you ought to change out of your pajamas? ↗

— Evan Wright

#change

I BELIEVE EVERYONE IS SPECIAL . . . BUT SOME PEOPLE THINK . . . . IT'S JUST ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING NO-ONE IS ↗

— ASHISH RANJAN

#choice #focus #goal #happiness #humour

The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE crunch. THE END ↗

— Iain M. Banks

#inspirational #science #inspirational

Life is just like the game of poker, you never know what cards you will get. Sitting against the people, you can either win with the king or live on a joker. Many times in life you are forced to play the blind bet, and achieve overwhelming success, with loads of cash in your pocket or you may reach disastrous conclusions, losing everything you have got. That’s the reason I love playing poker. ↗

— Prerna Varma

#life #relationships #inspirational

I need new prayers, the old ones don't work anymore. ↗

— Ruchir Joshi

#inspirational #inspirational

Your mind is just like a parachute ! if you don't open it, it won't work ! ↗

— Tom Evans

#inspirational #inspirational