Hugo

“Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts. He has to have a frame of orientation which permits him to organize a consistent picture of the world as a condition for consistent actions. He has to fight not only against the dangers of dying, starving, and being hurt, but also against another danger which is specifically human: that of becoming insane. In other words, he has to protect himself not only against the danger of losing his life but also against the danger of losing his mind.”
― Erich Fromm, The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology

“L’air marin nous incitait à la bonne humeur. Le plaisir que nous goûtions et qui fêtait tous nos sens, enivrait sainement, aussi bien le riche que le pauvre. Notre communion, avec la nature profonde, insondable et illimitée, désintoxiquait notre âme. Le découragement et la tristesse s’en allaient, soudainement remplacés par des sentiments de plénitude et d’épanouissement.”
― Mariama Bâ, Une si longue lettre (Roman)

“Leadership” is wanting to do something new and better, and getting others to go along.”
― Edgar H Schein, Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust

“Anatoly Rybakov’s forbidden Children of the Arbat*6 and other good books; finally, we’d all become democrats. How”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets