💬 Quotes

"Glasnost opened the floodgates to a painful historical truth that had been suppressed for generations, forcing a national reckoning with the past."

"Workplace alienation was institutionalized; workers pretended to work, and the state pretended to pay them, creating a hollowed-out labor force."

"The collapse of the Soviet system was ultimately not just a failure of ideology, but a systemic failure to provide the basic dignity of a decent standard of living."

"The worth of each thing is in its worthiness."

"Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion."

"The specialty of rule hath been neglected: / And, look, how undesignated degrees / Prevent employment, are deracinated."

"The wound of peace is surety, / Surety secure; but modest doubt is call'd / The beacon of the wise."

"True swains in love shall in the world approve / O, so my Cressid lies, 'gainst truth in truth."

"This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined, that the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit."

"I have got my life to reconcile to my time, and my time to reconcile to my heart—and I am getting on famously."

"The <i>Moonstone</i> has put a fatal end to our quiet times here. It has brought a curse with it, sir."

"It is the great defect of the English national character, in these latitudes, that we are obstinately slow in understanding the truth when the truth is unpleasant to us."

"Lawyers don't like queer stories—they like <i>facts</i>, properly divided into paragraphs, and exact to a fraction of a farthing."

"To look back to the beginning, and to see where this complicity of ours began, is the only helpful course now."

"As long as the mystery remains unthrummed, there is no peace for any of us under this roof."

"All human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and hope.'"

"Moral wounds have this peculiarity: they may hide, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart."

"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness."

"To learn is not to know; there are those who know and those who understand. Memory asks what? and intelligence asks why?"

"Belief is the igniting spark which gets the engine of the mind started."