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“If I can stop one Heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can Ease one life the Aching,
Or cool one Pain
Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again,
I shall not live in Vain.”
―
I shall not live in vain;
If I can Ease one life the Aching,
Or cool one Pain
Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again,
I shall not live in Vain.”
―
“A line is a fuse
that's lit.
The line smolders,
the rhyme explodes—
and by a stanza
a city
is blown to bits.”
―
that's lit.
The line smolders,
the rhyme explodes—
and by a stanza
a city
is blown to bits.”
―
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger--
If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early--
If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless--
If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.”
― The Neverending Story
If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early--
If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless--
If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.”
― The Neverending Story
“Linke widersetzen sich der Durchökonomisierung aller Lebensbereiche. Sie beurteilen Menschen weder nach ihrer Funktionalität für die Gesellschaft noch nach dem Grad ihrer Angepasstheit an den Mainstream. Ein Künstler ist ihnen nicht weniger wert, weil er am Ende des Jahres weniger Einkommenssteuer an den Staat überweist als ein Bankangestellter. Und ein Jugendlicher mit bunter Tolle ist nicht alleine deswegen ein Krimineller, weil er den Gang zum Dorffriseur verweigert. Linke sind also gesellschaftlich liberal. Das allerdings gilt auch für den einen oder anderen FDP-Wähler. Linke sind allerdings darüber hinaus Befürworter eines sozialen Staates. Aus Gerechtigkeitsgründen. Und im Wissen, dass jeder Euro, der in den Bereichen Bildung und Soziales gespart wird, später doppelt und dreifach für Justiz und Polizei ausgegeben werden muss. Die Wertschätzung des Sozialstaates wiederum unterscheidet Linke von den allermeisten FDP-Wählern. Linke sind also dem altmodischen Wert der Gerechtigkeit verbunden - national wie international. Sie denken in gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhängen, wissen also, dass der Landarbeiter in Namibia des Nachts auf Nashornjagd geht, weil er sonst seine Familie nicht durchbringen könnte. Eine faire Weltwirtschaftsordnung ist für Linke deshalb weder "Gedöns" noch "Charity"-Ereignis, sondern eine ziemlich existentielle Frage. Gesellschaftliche Liberalität, soziale Gerechtigkeit und internationale Solidarität sind daher für mich die Grundwerte, die ein linkes Politikverständnis auszeichnen.”
― Was ist links?
― Was ist links?
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