You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.
The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.
The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their pure form, cannot always be identified within specific historical popular collectivities.
Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust.
Destruction is difficult. It is as difficult as creation.
History is at once freedom and necessity.
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters
No matter how huge your loss, as long as you remain engaged with your life, the best days of your life may still be ahead of you. Don't misunderstand me: the pain of your loss will remain with you for the rest of your life. But great joy will be there right beside it. Deep sorrow and deep joy can exist within you, side by side. At every moment. And it's not confusing. And it's not a conflict.
It is only through an abandonment of the idea that those entrusted with power have an exclusive right to decide upon war, and the substitution of a public opinion equipped with all the facts and taken into the confidence of the ruling classes, that peace can be assured to the world.
If I had only a negative side of things to present, I think I would have much less of a drive to do it. Because what would be the point?
The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.