No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

Each day is a little bit of history

Simon Stiegler, Literatur, Belletristik, Crime, Psychology, Philosophy, Art, children, Adult, books, author, Autor

Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm.

In life, you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.

Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

Pride is never sinful when it is Justice.

I could never rap, personally. I can't even wrap presents.

The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.

You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.