"May I share with you some words of wisdom that were found on the wall of an orphanage in Calcutta, "If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight. Build anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give the world the best you've got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God ... anyway." Sister Joy D. Jones | October 2018 General Conference | For Him
Bazı şeyleri inşa etmek için bazı şeyleri yıkmak gerekirdi.
To build some things, it was necessary to destroy some things.
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What can we all do? Organize, of course, as so many on the global feminist, antiracist, anti-neoliberal left are now doing. But also, expose the cruelty at the heart of neoliberalism, and build on the social solidarity she worked so hard to discredit and destroy. Reject Ayn Rand. After all, she rejects you.
It will break me. She will destroy me, ruin me even more than I have already been, and it will be the end of everything I have worked so hard for. Everything I have worked so hard to build, to keep, to kill for and fight for. Yet was it even worth the effort? Am I losing it or rejecting it?
KİTAPLA İLGİLİ YAZIM VE PROJEM. GAYE DİLEK GEZER
KİTAPLAR ÖLMESİN (DON’T LET THE BOOKS DİE)
Sadece canlılar mı ölür, peki ya kitaplar? Kitapların da bir ruhu yok mudur?
Kitap sektörünün ve yayıncılığın zor günler geçirdiği günümüzde, acilen bir şeyler yapılmazsa eğer kitaplar ölecek ve kültür büyük bir darbe görecektir. Kitapların ölmesi demek, toplumun hafızasının ölmesi demektir ki bu
He is Dictator. The future lies in his strong hands. If they fail, grow flabby, tremble, if though strong to destroy they cannot build, then Turkey dies.
A lone man without family, without friends, he has made the people of Turkey the heirs to his private possessions and to his power.
He is Dictator in order that it may be impossible ever again that there should be in Turkey a Dictator.
THE END
Sayfa 335Kitabı okudu
Doğmanın bir zamanı var ve ölmenin bir zamanı var. Ağlamanın bir zamanı ve dans etmenin bir zamanı. Öldürmek için bir zaman ve iyileşmek için bir zaman. Yıkmak için bir zaman ve inşa etmek için bir zaman.
There is a time to be born and a time to die. A time to weep and a time to dance. A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to destroy and a time to build.
Finally, argued Bolsheviks, Islam’s insistence on dividing the world between believers and nonbelievers ruled out fraternization among different peoples of the Soviet Union as equals—thus hindering the creation of the New Socialist Person, who would transcend his or her religious, ethnic, and racial background to build a socialist order.
The ruling party and state coordinated anti-Islamic education and propaganda with literacy drives and reorganized popular socio-economic activities. They focused on winning a few converts to scientific atheism in each village, with a view to using them as models of rationalism and modern thinking. These efforts went hand in hand with steps to weaken and destroy the extensive religious networks of mosques and theological institutions, and their financial support—the religious trust properties, which were nationalized. (In Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk followed a similar path, except that there were no parallel literacy campaigns and no ideological ballast of historical materialism or scientific atheism; it had more to do with destroying the possibility that the Sultan-Caliph would return on the backs of revived Islamic institutions and clerics.)
Sayfa 393
Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
Tolstoy
I found that for people of my circle there were four ways out of the terrible position in which we are all placed. The first was that of ignorance. It consists in not knowing, not understanding, that life is an evil and an absurdity.
People of this sort ... have not yet understood that question of life.... They see neither the dragon that awaits
LAW 1: NEVER OUTSHINE THE MASTER
Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite—inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power.
LAW 2:
