Martin Svoboda

“When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!”

Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892–1981) American businessman

“When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.”

Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter

“I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.”

Jimmy Page (1944) British guitarist of Led Zeppelin

“Hope is a muscle that allows us to connect.”

Björk (1965) Icelandic singer-songwriter

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“Generally speaking, whether or not technology can be thought of as good or bad depends on how it is used. We human beings should not be slaves to technology or machines. We should be in charge.”

Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (1683–1706) sixth Dalai Lama of Tibet

“The glow retreats, done is the day of toil;
It yonder hastes, new fields of life exploring;
Ah, that no wing can lift me from the soil
Upon its track to follow, follow soaring!
A glorious dream! though now the glories fade.
Alas! the wings that lift the mind no aid
Of wings to lift the body can bequeath me.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe book Faust

“Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.”

Norman Schwarzkopf (1934–2012) United States Army general

“Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.”

Philip Rieff (1922–2006) American sociologist

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

“Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will ever be the same again.”

William Paul Young book The Shack

“There are many ways to kill. One can stick a knife in one's stomach, deprive one of bread, fail to cure one of a disease, put one in a bad apartment, work one to death, drive one to suicide, take one to war, etc. Only a few of these are forbidden in our state.”

Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director

“Nothing can destroy iron, only its own rust can. Likewise, nothing can destroy you, only your own mindset can.”

Unknown author

“I don't know why people expect art to make sense. Life doesn't make sense.”

David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor

“There are so few who have all the talents requisite for translation and… there is so little encouragement for so considerable part of learning.”

John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century

“Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

“Above all, don't lie to yourself.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

“Maybe your path is harder because your calling is higher.”

Unknown author

“Ideology doesn´t arrive and say, "I am ideology". Ideology says: "I am nature, and this is how things are".”

Mark Fisher (writer) book Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?