
“We want what we can’t have, even when we have no right to demand it.”
Source: Firefight
The Bet (1889)
“We want what we can’t have, even when we have no right to demand it.”
Source: Firefight
“You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.”
p 63
The Undiscovered Self (1958)
“If the government does not adjust the electricity rate, then even God could not operate Taipower.”
Jiang Yi-huah (2013) cited in " Ma and I try not to let each other down: Jiang http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2013/08/15/386428/Ma-and.htm" on The China Post, 15 August 2013
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam http://www.allamaiqbal.com/works/prose/english/reconstruction/index.htm
Il torre altrui la vita
È facoltà commune
Al più vil della terra; il darla è solo
De' Numi, e de' Regnanti.
La Clemenza di Tito (1734), Act III, scene 7.
Alan García in an interview with Cecilia Valenzuela (channel Willax) in January 2011, translation by Carwil without Borders, 27 June 2011 https://woborders.wordpress.com/tag/peru/
Speech in the White House (29 July 1966), quoted in The Times (30 July 1966), p. 1.
Prime Minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 220.
Source: Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1965/nov/23/schedule-acts-continued-till-end-of#column_370 in the House of Commons (23 November 1965)
Spark (2014)
Context: True ideology has vanished, replaced by fear and fantasy. The right wing wants corporate control and a return to a past that never existed. The left wing wants government control and a future that will never exist. Both groups lose sight of the essential questions: how can the individual speak and think and create freely? New ideas are the only evolutionary force that will save us from destruction.