"I'm going to give you a peaceful Basque Country"

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“Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal.”

“The earth belongs to nobody except the wind.”

“I don't want to be a great leader. I would rather be a good democrat.”

“We are the envy of Europe and in a few years time we are going to be one of the top countries in the world.”

“Reachable goals are worth the struggle.”

“I am highly at ease and calm because we have a fairly republican king.”

Resonant Thoughts

"It was not quiet in my head."

— Michael Nava

Law1954

#peace

"Look at Vietnam, look at Lebanon. Whenever soldiers start coming home in body bags, Americans panic and retreat. Such a country needs only to be confronted with two or three sharp blows, then it will …"

— Osama bin Laden

Religion1957–2011

#life

"Turn for some crumb of comfort to the Labour Party? Forget it! The Labour Party seem to be packaging themselves like a pack of toilet paper, at the moment – sort of going for this pastel-politics look…"

— Linda Smith

Literature1958–2006

#time

"When Christianity came into the world the task was simply to proclaim Christianity. The same is the case wherever Christianity is introduced into a country the religion of which is not Christianity."

— Søren Kierkegaard

Philosophy1813–1855

#religion