„To conceive a thought — just one, but one that would tear the universe to pieces.“

— Emil M. Cioran

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„Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.“
— Virginia Woolf
„This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.“
— Franz Kafka
„Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.“
— Jane Austen
„The whole universe is one. There is only one Self in the universe, only One Existence.“
— Swami Vivekananda
„I think the basic question you ask is a good one: if we were to withdraw our own beating people over the heads with clubs, would it necessarily follow that somebody else would take that role, or are there other alternatives? Well yeah, there are other alternatives. For example, the alternatives that are favored by the overwhelming majority of the population of the United States. I mentioned one piece of it: let the UN function. The UN isn't perfect, a lot of things wrong with it, just like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights isn't perfect… But one step would be to pay some respect to the "decent opinion of mankind", to quote the famous author, and let international institutions function so as to reduce the likelihood that anybody will use force…“
— Noam Chomsky