#world

I'm a lion in a strange land. ↗

#awkwardness #beast #courage #different #earth

The tears are falling freely now, and I don't care if he sees them. They're tears of relief for my nephew, worry for my grandfather and my brother, and shame for my mistake. I figure I earned them. ↗

— Teresa R. Funke

#courage #crying #inspiration #tears #war

Man is biodegradable; his mistakes are not. And sometimes I feel man cannot delay his degradation prior to his death. ↗

— Jaf Liethers

#environment #human #jaf-liethers #man #mankind

That there is in this world neither brains, nor goodness, nor good sense, but only brute force. Bloodshed. Starvation. Death. That there was not the slightest hope not even a glimmer of hope, of justice being done. It would never happen. No one would ever do it. The world was just one big Babi Yar. And there two great forces had come up against each other and were striking against each other like hammer and anvil, and the wretched people were in between, with no way out; each individual wanted only to live and not be maltreated, to have something to eat, and yet they howled and screamed and in their fear they were grabbing at each other’s throats, while I, little blob of watery jelly, was sitting in the midst of this dark world. Why? What for? Who had done it all? There was nothing, after all, to hope for! Winter. Night. ↗

— A. Anatoli Kuznetsov

#depression #holocaust #ukraine #world-war-ii #death

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#conflict #fighting #peace #revenge #trial

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#sex #world

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#incrementalism #kindness #world

If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all? ↗