Ernst Toller Quotes

As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.

Ernst Toller

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• I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Me
  • Stand
  • Betrayal

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• I'm not super into sports.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Sports
  • Super

• I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Life
  • Live
  • Culture

• War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • War
  • Courage
  • Israel

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

  

  Ed Harris
  • City
  • Day
  • Sleep

• You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Movie
  • Think
  • House

• I'm very passionate.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Very
  • Passionate

• You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Career
  • Wise
  • Greatest

• My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Role

• In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• The manifestation of the Divinity must be understood to be in greater degree in those who are honoured, respected, and obeyed by a large following, than in those who have gained no such influence.

  

  Ramakrishna

• Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Live
  • Water

• This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Feeling

• You are more than now;You are for always.I can see in youMy dreams come true.Don't you ever go away.You make me feel likeThere's nothing I can't do.And when I hold you,I only want to sayI love you.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • True

• Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Political
  • Earth

• Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• To me, being creative is a very fragile thing. The environment in which one can create is a very particular one, and somehow, I've always felt the need to be very protective of that.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Environment

• A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • People
  • Today
  • Stop

• If there's a truth and nobody knows it, is it still true? Or is it like a light burning in a locked, shuttered house that nobody will ever get to see?

  

  Tom Holt
  • Truth
  • True
  • House

• I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Prize
  • Honoured
  • Mahatma Gandhi

• We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Decision

• As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.

  

  Ernst Toller
  • Truth
  • Rule
  • Discover