#ty

Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#germany #indignation #inspirational #literature #reality

People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is the sauce to pull out the inspirations out of me that touch the core of people's hearts, which is usually wandering about deep inside of you unconsciously covered with the social taboo called 'common sense'. ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#emotion #insanity #life-of-artist #madness #passion

Instead of protesting and cursing others because they write "X-Mas" instead of "Christmas"; try being Christmas. Live Christmas. Breathe Christmas. Act Christmas. Speak Christmas. Reflect Christmas. Listen and feel Christmas Christ doesn't care how you write Christmas; he cares how you live Christmas all year long. ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#christmas #christmas-quotes #inspirational-quotes #life #religion

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#inspirational #inspirational

listen, God is not some little genie or a vending machine. And is not just worth it because he makes your life all better, but He's with you. God wants so much more for your life than fine ↗

— Jim Britts

#religion-christianity #inspirational

From the mud of adversity grows the lotus of joy ↗

— Carolyn Marsden

#hope #inspirational #joy #inspirational

My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#gender-stereotypes #men

I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful. ↗

— John Ruskin

#humility #men

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#vanity #men

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new. ↗

— J. Courtney Sullivan

#leave #marriage #men-and-women #marriage