„A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.“

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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„But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened beforeThat men both deny gods and worship gods, professing first Reason,And then Money, and Power, and what they call Life, or Race, or Dialectic.“
— T.S. Eliot
„I have had a larger responsibility of human lives than ever man or woman had before. And I attribute my success to this — I never gave or took an excuse. Yes, I do see the difference now between me and other men. When a disaster happens, I act and they make excuses.“
— Florence Nightingale