Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Age: 57 †
Born: 1909
Born: March 6
Died: 1966
Died: May 7
Aphorist
Poet
Writer
Lemberg
Austria
Stanisław Lec
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Stanislaw Lec
Antiwar
Deserves
Deserve
Sacrifice
Mankind
Peace
War
More quotes by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
There are parodies of non-existent things.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
