"Power and Love" (1926)
Context: p> Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.We cannot avoid
Using power,
Cannot escape the compulsion
To afflict the world,
So let us, cautious in diction
And mighty in contradiction,
Love powerfully.</p
“Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?”
Alain de Botton book The Consolations of Philosophy
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter II, Consolation For Not having Enough Money, p. 65.
“We cannot avoid or escape, but we can sing.”
Rima Das (1982) Indian Assamese film maker
As to why the title of the film Bulbul Can Sing has the word sing, and why it matters to the story <br class="br"> Women And Hollywood Article - Under the Radar: Rima Das’ “Bulbul Can Sing” Examines the Joy and Pain of Growing Up - 6 November 2018 https://womenandhollywood.com/under-the-radar-rima-das-bulbul-can-sing-examines-the-joy-and-pain-of-growing-up/ - Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20210728172902/https://womenandhollywood.com/under-the-radar-rima-das-bulbul-can-sing-examines-the-joy-and-pain-of-growing-up/ <br class="br"> BULBUL CAN SING Director Q&A | TIFF 2018, at 12 Min 48 Sec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ4vt8ASzE8
“Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.”
Brian Jacques (1939–2011) British fiction writer known for Redwall animal fantasy novels
“It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.”
Victor Hugo book The Man Who Laughs
The Man Who Laughs (1869)
José Saramago book Blindness
Se não formos capazes de viver inteiramente como pessoas, ao menos façamos tudo para não viver inteiramente como animais.
Source: Blindness (1995), p. 116
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) American scientist
[No More War!, Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1962, 209]
1940s-1960s
Maria Weston Chapman (1806–1885) American abolitionist
From [Boston Female Anti-slavery Society, Annual Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, https://books.google.com/books?id=W5I5AQAAMAAJ, 1836, The Society, 30], as quoted in [Dell, Diana, Memorable Quotations: American Women Writers of the Past, https://books.google.com/books?id=eM3IWooc_zIC, December 2000, iUniverse, 978-0-595-16230-7, 73]
