Martin Svoboda

@quick, member from April 4, 2011
Paulo Coelho photo

“You may love your country and hate your government.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: https://www.facebook.com/paulocoelho/posts/10159033117301211

John Green photo
John Green photo
Jacques Attali photo

“Today, music heralds… the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.”

Jacques Attali (1943) French economist

Source: Quotations of the Day: September 2003, https://www.bartleby.com/quotations/092003.html

Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“There is a crack in every thing God has made.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/11/16/light/
Context: Siegfried, in the Nibelungen, is not quite immortal, for a leaf fell on his back whilst he was bathing in the Dragon’s blood, and that spot which it covered is mortal. And so it always is. There is a crack in every thing God has made.

Robert M. Pirsig photo

“A study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.”

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/books/robert-pirsig-dead-wrote-zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance.html

Egils Levits photo

“Many generations create a common good. We are only a part of that sequence of generations.”

Egils Levits (1955) Latvian judge, jurist and politician

Source: Address given Assuming the Office / at the Saeima

Egils Levits photo

“Common good also has a future dimension. Our task is hand over our country to the next generations better than we inherited that. One's own country must be continuously adjusted, renewed and modernised so that it would be sustainable. That is our duty towards the history.”

Egils Levits (1955) Latvian judge, jurist and politician

Source: Address given Assuming the Office / at the Saeima, https://www.president.lv/en/article/address-he-president-latvia-mr-egils-levits-assuming-office-saeima

Egils Levits photo

“Latvian language, culture, history and world outlook do not belong to Latvians only. Everyone who identifies oneself with some minority is kindly welcome to participate in the life of the country by preserving one's minority culture, language, and traditions in parallel. It is a contribution to richness and diversity of Latvia's culture.”

Egils Levits (1955) Latvian judge, jurist and politician

Source: Address given Assuming the Office / at the Saeima, https://www.president.lv/en/article/address-he-president-latvia-mr-egils-levits-assuming-office-saeima

Egils Levits photo

“The ideal country does not exist, as progress would discontinue. A life without ideals would be individually miserable and politically useless.”

Egils Levits (1955) Latvian judge, jurist and politician

Source: Address given Assuming the Office / at the Saeima, https://www.president.lv/en/article/address-he-president-latvia-mr-egils-levits-assuming-office-saeima

Egils Levits photo

“We have inherited our country from the previous generations, which had won and shaped it. Own country is an excellent value per se.”

Egils Levits (1955) Latvian judge, jurist and politician

Source: Address given Assuming the Office / at the Saeima, https://www.president.lv/en/article/address-he-president-latvia-mr-egils-levits-assuming-office-saeima

Egils Levits photo

“The Freedom Monument impersonates the message about the will of state of the founders of the country and Latvian people, our dreams about freedom, ur readiness to fight for it, and our readiness to safeguard it.”

Egils Levits (1955) Latvian judge, jurist and politician

Source: Address given Assuming the Office / at the Freedom Monument, https://www.president.lv/en/article/address-he-president-latvia-mr-egils-levits-ar-freedom-monument

Sergei Korolev photo

“The way to the stars is open.”

Sergei Korolev (1906–1966) Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer