Category: Quotes

Chcel som ti ukázať, čo je opravdivá odvaha, a nie ťa utvrdiť v presvedčení, že odvaha znamená človeka s puškou v ruke. Odvaha je: pustiť sa do boja, aj keď vopred vieš, že si porazený, a napriek tomu vytrvať v boji až do konca. Zriedka zvíťazíš, ale niekedy sa ti to podarí. Harper Lee To…

How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?Winston thought. By making him suffer, he said.Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing…

Still, obviously, one can’t be sensible all the time. Albert Camus The Stranger 24 The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted by his runnels of sweat and drank. They tickled under his nostrils and played leapfrog on…

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. Brave New World 4401 But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. Brave New World 2878 Actual happiness always…

You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 If I may be permitted an editorial aside, allow me to say that in my opinion we must be cautious about passing moral judgment upon the Gileadean. Surely we have learned by now that such…

My flower is somewhere out there… Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince 0 There are a great many buttocks in this room. I am no longer used to them. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 0 A thing is valued, she says, only if it is rare and hard to get. We want you to be…