Martin Svoboda

“When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it’s easy to escape because you know what they’re going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it’s much more difficult.”

Pelé (1940–2022) Brazilian association football player

“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”

Thucydides Greek historian and Athenian general

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”

Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American writer

“It's easy to find people to do things. What's harder is to find people to tell you what should be done.”

Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.

“We are seeing a globalization of indifference. There is a culture of conflict, which makes us think only of ourselves. Makes us live in soap bubbles which, however lovely, are also insubstantial. We've become used to the suffering of others. It doesn't affect me. No one in our world feels responsible. Who is responsible for the blood of our…”

Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

“Truth may be vital, but without love, it is unbearable. Caritas in veritate.”

Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

“Confession cleans the sinner's soul, it doesn't help the victim. Our whole church is in need of forgiveness. Where is our humility? Sin is a wound, not a stain. It needs to be treated, healed. Forgiveness is not enough.”

Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

“We have spent these last years disciplining anyone who disagrees with our line on divorce, on birth control, on being gay. While our planet was being destroyed, while inequality grew like a cancer. We worried whether it was alright to speak the Mass in Latin, whether girls should be allowed to be altar servers. We built walls around us, and all…”

Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

“It's not easy to entrust oneself to God's mercy. I know He has a very special capacity for forgetting our mistakes. God forgets, but I don't.”

Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

“When no one is to blame, everyone is to blame.”

Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

“When love is not madness it is not love.”

Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681) Spanish dramatist

“The correct lesson to learn from surprises: the world is surprising.”

Daniel Kahneman (1934) Israeli-American psychologist

“When making plans, think big. When making progress, think small.”

James Clear (1986) American author and speaker

“There is a human tendency to desire and even artificially create a sense of certainty.”

Mike Rother (1958) American business academic

“Our species will end but the light of God will not end and at that point it will invade all souls and it will all be in everyone.”

Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

“It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.”

Thucydides Greek historian and Athenian general

“History is Philosophy teaching by examples.”

Thucydides Greek historian and Athenian general

“Simplicity is a great way to build something that works well without costing too much.”

Richard Branson (1950) English business magnate, investor and philanthropist

“The opposite of every great truth is also a great truth”

Niels Bohr (1885–1962) Danish physicist