Rudolf Scharping quotes

Rudolf Scharping quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Remembrance is the secret of reconciliation.”
-- Rudolf Scharping

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“If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.”
“Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.”
“We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches.”
“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”
“I'm not good at secrets, so don't tell me any.”
“We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks... With enough of us, around the world, weâ€™ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge â€” weâ€™ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?”

Source : "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto". Book by Aaron Swartz, July 2008.
“My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.”
“The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.”
“Do I take the Gospel message of reconciliation and love into the places where I live and work?”
“History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.”

Source : Jan Christian Smuts (1952). “Jan Christian Smuts: a biography”, William Morrow & Company

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