„In some places the metropolis makes do with paying a clique of feudal overlords; in others, it has fabricated a fake bourgeoisie of colonized subjects in a system of divide and rule; elsewhere, it has killed two birds with one stone: the colony is both settlement and exploitation.“

— Jean Paul Sartre

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„To shoot down a European is to kill two birds with one stone, to destroy an oppressor and the man he oppresses at the same time.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„Then they invite her to join the dance and approach the holy rites, and make room for her in their ranks and rejoice to be near her. Just as Idalian birds, cleaving the soft clouds and long since gathered in the sky or in their homes, if a strange bird from some distant region has joined them wing to wing, are at first all filled with amaze and fear; then nearer and nearer they fly, and while yet in the air have made him one of them and hover joyfully around with favouring beat of pinions and lead him to their lofty resting-places.“
— Statius
„A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song“
— Maya Angelou
„How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! … In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make — leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents, or piled stone — we all dwell in a house of one room — the world with the firmament for its roof — and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.“
— John Muir