#brings

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#am #basic #belief #brings #democracy

I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace. ↗

— Bjork

#confront #deal #embrace #every #handle

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#brings #conversation #dearly #essentials #how

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#author #book #brings #into #much

The fear factor actually brings the genuineness. ↗

— Ang Lee

#brings #factor #fear

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward. ↗

— Ovid

#deed #good #good deed #men #reward

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#ineffable #inner #inner strength #light #man

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life. ↗

— Chanakya

#brings #causes #day #die #disgrace

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#brings #child #home #hour #like

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges. ↗

— Buenaventura Durruti

#brings #destroy #fascism #fights #government