Vasil Kunchev > Vasil's Quotes

“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

“We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.”
― Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

“Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!”
― Anais Nin

“The fear of barbarians is what risks making us barbarians.”
― Tzvetan Todorov

“Civilization is a horizon which we can approach, while barbarity is a background from which we seek to move away; neither condition can be entirely identified with particular beings. It consists of acts and attitudes that are barbarian or civilized, not individuals or peoples.”
― Tzvetan Todorov

“Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or to love. So they became swingers. The dead fucking the dead. There was no gamble or humor in their game -it was corpse fucking corpse. Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience down through the centuries. Some morals tended to keep people slaves in factories, in churches and true to the State. Other morals simply made good sense. It was like a garden filled with poisoned fruit and good fruit. You had to know which to pick and eat, which to leave alone.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has bestowed upon men; no treasures that the earth holds buried or the sea conceals can compare with it; for freedom, as for honour, life may and should be ventured; and on the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can fall to the lot of man.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“...най-здравият съюз на този свят е този между бездарниците. Те са тези, които в условията на всеки тоталитарен режим успяват да изкопаят по някакъв гьол, съответстващ на техните размери, в който се мъчат да натикат и умъртвят онези, които са родени, за да кръстосват океаните.”
― Georgi Markov, Задочни репортажи за България

“Ах, какви герои сме имали! Ах, какви подвизи сме вършили! Да живее Велика България! — вдигна подигравателно Парашкевов десница подобно запасния офицер. Втренчили сме се в миналото, сякаш не живеем в сегашното. И знаеш ли защо го правим? За да скрием с миналото какви говеда сме в момента! Кой съзнателно, повечето несъзнателно, но така работи гузната ни машинка. Чрез историята искаме да оправдаем собствената си некадърност, мързел и мърльовщина. Тука ни стиска чепикът! И не че миналото толкоз тачим, ами себе си искаме да извиним, че всеки ден проваляме България с личното си поведение. С лошо свършена работа, с кръшкане, с шмекерлъци и бъркотия на всяка крачка.”
― Димитър Кирков, Балкански грешник