knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We.
“Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.”
“You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you you hate it because you are afraid of it you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.”
“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.”
“I'm like a machine being run over its RPM limit: The bearings are overheating - a minute longer, and the metal is going to melt and start dripping and that'll be the end of everything. I need a qui...”
“The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.”
“I looked silently at her lips. All women are lips, all lips. Some are pink and firmly round: a ring, a tender guardrail from the whole world. And then there are these ones: a second ago they werent...”
“Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles”
“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”
“Homo sapiens! The name itself was an irony. They had not been wise at all, but incredibly stupid. Lords of the Earth with their great gray brains, their thinking minds had placed them above all oth...”
“Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”
“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don...”
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
“Does God get what God wants?Thats a good question. An interesting question. And its an important question that has given us much to discuss. But theres a better question. One that we actually can a...”
“Nobody fights over the opinion of which book is better. So why do we fight over which religion is better, if they're all based on books? Let us read and learn from them all and unite in our differe...”
“How many races have been dehumanized in the name of evolution and scientific race theories? Is a bomb a religious or a scientific invention?”