„Wonder weapons… my God, I don’t see the wonder in them. Killing without heroics, nothing is glorified… nothing is reaffirmed? No heroes, no cowards, no troops, no generals? Only those who are left alive… and those who are left dead. I’m glad I won’t live to see it.“

— George S. Patton

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„I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all some day.“
— Louisa May Alcott
„My mother saw me being attacked. She cried when I left engineering for this cause. She understood my fight, encouraged me. I remember all those who were with me in this struggle, including two colleagues who were killed. Whenever I free children from slavery and take them back to their mothers, the tears of happiness in their eyes are like blessings of God. When I see the faces of liberated children, I find their smile of freedom divine and it gives me divine strength. I never feel I'm liberating them, rather it feels like they're giving me freedom.“
— Kailash Satyarthi
„Even today I wonder why those Germans didn't wait for me at the villa and send someone to look for me in Turin. It is because of their failure that I am still free and up here. Why I should have been saved and not Gallo, or Tono, or Cate, I don't know. Perhaps because I'm supposed to suffer for others? Because I'm the most useless and don't deserve anything, not even punishment? Because I went into a church that time? The experience of danger creates more cowards every day. It makes one stupid. I have reached the point of being alive only by chance, when many better men than I are dead, I don't like it, it's not enough. At time, after having listened to the useless radio and looked through the windows at the empty vineyards, I think that living by accident is not living, and I wonder if have really escaped.“
— Cesare Pavese
„If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.“
— Rumi
„Death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.“
— Patricia Briggs
„For those who want ‘to change life”, ‘to reinvent love,’ God is nothing but a hindrance.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?“
— Aleister Crowley
„I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.“
— Isaac Bashevis Singer