Abba Kovner Quotes

We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

Abba Kovner

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• I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.

  

  Lark Voorhies
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• Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness and darkness. On wings, on feet, on our bellies, out we all come to glory in the night.

  

  Leslie Marmon Silko
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• The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
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• The week ahead is already programmed for fabulousness. Pray that your thinking be aligned with the force that makes it so.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.

  

  William R. Alger
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• I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.

  

  Fanny Howe
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• In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness, and it guides - by - precepts - backed by the full force of its authority.

  

  Sigmund Freud
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• Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • Found
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• I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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• In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Night
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• So long as there are men, there will be wars.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Men
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• Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious "right" a revolution was fought.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • People
  • Revolution
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• Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Command
  • Sheep
  • Dainty

• We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

  

  Abba Kovner
  • Sheep
  • Slaughter