„But, braggart demons, we postpone our end: how could we renounce the display of our freedom, the show of our pride?“

— Emil M. Cioran

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„The questions we face today -- how to promote equality and justice; how to uphold freedom and human rights; how to end conflict and sectarian war -- these things do not have easy answers. But there were no easy answers in front of that child born in World War I. Nelson Mandela reminds us that it always seems impossible until it is done. South Africa shows that is true. South Africa shows we can change, that we can choose a world defined not by our differences, but by our common hopes. We can choose a world defined not by conflict, but by peace and justice and opportunity.“
— Barack Obama
„What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not realise just how apartheid has damaged us so that we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong.“
— Desmond Tutu
„We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war.“
— Barack Obama
„Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. If we can bring ourselves down by our karma, surely it is in our power to raise ourselves by our own karma.“
— Swami Vivekananda