quotes about Collectivism

“If it was true that moss did not have roots, and maternal love could grow spontaneously, as if from nothing, perhaps I had been wrong to believe myself unfit to raise my daughter. Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.”

Source : Vanessa Diffenbaugh (2011). “The Language of Flowers: A Novel”, p.308, Ballantine Books

“One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.”

“When I was 7 years old I saw Jimmy Connors make someone carry his bag, as though he were Julius Caesar. I vowed then and there that I would always carry my own.”

“Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid point. To assert that Americans are naive, Germans humourless and the French arrogant is one thing: they're big enough to take it. But to say that there's a conspiracy of Jewish bankers, that gypsies are thieves, Pakistanis are dirty and refugees are muggers is something quite else.”

“Go watch (Minority Report) if you can bear Tom Cruise for that long”

“I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring water.”

“All the suspects have been arrested. police are looking for them”

“A good product can last forever.”

“'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'”

“I place the blame with our own leaders who are not defending our interests. A strong euro is ruining our economy.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de