#roth

He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate in two moves.' Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates. ↗

— George Orwell

#chess #orwell #philosophy #mysticism

We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood,the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work. ↗

— Oscar A. Romero

#christian-living #cross #love #preach #violence

And it was because of their long history that he searched for something to say, something that would get them back to where they had been. All that came to him was...I miss you. I miss you so fucking bad it hurts, but I don't know how to find you even though you're right in front of me. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#blaylock #jr-ward #lover-mine #qhuinn #black-dagger-brotherhood

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#evil #get #good #must #out

Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#death #hearken #life #music #veronica-roth

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash. ↗

— Afrika Bambaataa

#am #brothers #dj #flash #founders

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#family #siblings #family

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother! ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#fellow #hypocrite #reader

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#brothers #days #flying #hadn #line

I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?' ↗

— James Belushi

#character #comedy #dad #did #funny