Martina

“Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“Kao ukleti Holandezi lutamo u daljinama i usput nabasavamo na tragove svog svijeta, na nemogućim mjestima, tamo gdje to najmanje očekujemo. I kamo god dođem, ja neprestano stižem kući.”
― Semezdin Mehmedinović, Ovo vrijeme sada

“Wherever people feel safe (...) they will be indifferent.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others