Marten Wennik > Marten's Quotes

“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”
― Jerry Garcia

“Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.”
― Thomas Mann

“Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.”
― Bertholt Brecht

“When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.”
― Evelyn Waugh

“But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.”
― Mark Twain

“Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.”
― Friedrich Schiller

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

“Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”
― Mark Twain