Leon > Leon's Quotes

“We are not surprised at Romeo loving Juliet, though he is a Montague and she is a Capulet. But if we found in addition that Lady Capulet was by birth a Montague, that Lady Montague was a first cousin of old Capulet, that Mecutio was at once the nephew of a Capulet and the brother-in-law of a Montague, that count Paris was related on his father’s side to one house and on his mother’s side to the other, that Tybalt was Romeo’s uncle’s stepson and that the Friar who had married Romeo and Juliet was Juliet’s uncle and Romeo’s first cousin once removed, we would probably conclude that the feud between the two houses was being kept up for dramatic entertainment of the people of Verona.”
― A. N. Wilson

“Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.”
― Baron Munchausen

“The end of superpower patronage to client movements worldwide created a power vacuum whose inevitable results included the spread of violence and the emergence of disparate groups, ostensibly fighting in the name of ideology, religion or ethnicity, but now seeking their finance through local taxes, plunder and pillage.”
― Leon Kukkuk, Letters to Gabriella: Angola's Last War for Peace, What the UN Did and Why

“There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves. The hero, then, is not Time, but Timelessness. We must get in step, a lock step, toward the prison of death. There is no escape. The weather will not change.”
― Henry Miller

“The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another....We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.”
― Gustav Landauer

“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.”
― George Orwell

“It is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous...to keep the very structure of society intact.”
― George Orwell

“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts; but, without sufficient capital to form a corporation.”
― Clarence Darrow

“Violence is itself a form of political mobilisation. It is mainly directed against civilians and not at another army. The aim is to capture territory through political control rather than through military success. And political control is maintained through terror, through expulsion or elimination of those who challenge political control, especially those with a different label. Population displacement, massacres, widespread atrocities are not just side effects of war; they are a deliberate strategy for political control. The tactic is to sow the fear and hate on which exclusive identity claims rest.”
― Leon Kukkuk, Letters to Gabriella: Angola's Last War for Peace, What the UN Did and Why

“But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which
constitutes the crime.”
― James Baldwin

“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy.
Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.”
― Thomas J Watson

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say, and stay when they are told to leave.”
― Howard Zinn

“Há homens que lutam um dia, e são bons; Há outros que lutam um ano, e são melhores; Há aqueles que lutam muitos anos, e são muito bons; Porém há os que lutam toda a vida, Estes são os imprescindíveis.”
― Berthold Brecht