Top 26 Breytenbach Quotes
#1. It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are.
Breyten Breytenbach
#2. The recognition and the acceptance of the Other's humanity (or humanness) is a maiming of self. You have to wound the self, cut it in strips, in order to -know- that you are as similar and of the same substance of shadows.
Breyten Breytenbach
#3. The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
Breyten Breytenbach
#4. It's always better to be conservative in action. One must always consider the dangers in the world.
Frederick Lenz
#5. The popcorn button on the microwave is a miraculous invention. More miraculous than even the microwave itself.
Gary Gulman
#6. It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
Breyten Breytenbach
#7. The more we are committed to believing that something is true, the less likely we are to believe that its opposite is true, even in the face of clear evidence that shows we are wrong.
Marshall Goldsmith
#8. The world, our world, has existed since night of time, yet every day we must recreate it. If we did not walk upon the earth, it would not exist.
Breyten Breytenbach
#9. My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.
Vin Diesel
#13. Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.
Maria Jane McIntosh
#14. 137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
Doc Hastings
#15. The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
Breyten Breytenbach
#16. I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
Breyten Breytenbach
#17. In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.
Breyten Breytenbach
#19. History is a succession of things that ought never to have happened, and the writing act is a kind of revenge against this.
Breyten Breytenbach
#20. The story of mankind is the nomadic search for many, many truths along harsh roads bordered with flesh and bones and the apparitions of truths long since eaten by birds; it is looking for truths to fill a grumbling stomach, and spitting them out like pebbles when they have lost their flavor.
Breyten Breytenbach
#21. There is such a thing as a small and cramped eternity. You may see it in many modern religions
G.K. Chesterton
#22. In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.
Breyten Breytenbach
#23. And gradually we will rot like old ships or trees
But keep Pain far from Me o Lord
Breyten Breytenbach
#24. You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you.
Gautama Buddha
#25. Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
Breyten Breytenbach
#26. Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.
Breyten Breytenbach
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