#easter

Shortly afterwards my father told me that he might be going into the Eastern Zone of Germany. At that time my own mind was closer to his than it had ever been before, because he also believed that they are at least trying to build a new world. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#also #because #been #before #believed

As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#asia #discovery #eastern #expedition #far

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot. ↗

— Patti LuPone

#eastern #i #kinds #like #listen

Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation. ↗

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

#hindu #inspirational #religious #spirituality #equality

Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#heaven #jesus #resurrection #life

أيتها المرأة الشرقية إن الذين ينادون باسمك ويدعون إلى مساواتك بالرجل إنما يضحكون عليك، فقد ضحكوا علينا من قبلك. ↗

— فرانسواز ساجان

#men #women-s-liberation #men

There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed it is so, my friend, and the moment you make yourself sincerely responsible for everything and everyone, you will see at once that it is really so, that it is you who are guilty on behalf of all and for all. Whereas by shifting your own laziness and powerlessness onto others, you will end by sharing in Satan's pride and murmuring against God. The Brothers Karamazov Book VI - The Russian Monk, Chapter 3 - Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zosima. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#eastern-orthodox #god #holiness #orthodox #piety

What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the destruction of Jewry was the necessary condition for the rise and expansion of Nazism, so the ethnic cleansing of Germans was a precondition for the Stalinization of Poland. I first noticed this point when reading an essay by the late Ernest Gellner, who at the end of the war had warned Eastern Europeans that collective punishment of Germans would put them under Stalin's tutelage indefinitely. They would always feel the guilty need for an ally against potential German revenge. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#eastern-european #ernest-gellner #ethnic-cleansing #genocide #germans

What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary. ↗

— Lea DeLaria

#believe #bunny #easter #homosexuality #like

China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#china #closer #costs #eastern #eastern europe