Citas curiosas
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends.” Maya Angelou, poetisa estadounidense.
“Jede neue Sprache, die wir lernen, ist ein Zuwachs an neuen Erlebnissen.” Hermann Hesse, premio Nobel de literatura.
- Qu’est-ce qu’optimisme ? disait Cacambo.- Hélas ! dit Candide, c’est la rage de soutenir que tout est bien quand on est mal.Voltaire, extraído de su libro Candide, ou l´optimisme.
“A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules; a language is a flash of the human spirit; it’s a vehicle through which the soul of each particular culture comes into the material world. Every language is an old growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities.” Wade Davis, National Geographic Explorer.
“Primero vinieron a buscar a los comunistas, y yo no hablé porque no era comunista. Después vinieron por los socialistas y los sindicalistas, y yo no hablé porque no era lo uno ni lo otro. Después vinieron por los judíos, y yo no hablé porque no era judío. Después vinieron por mí, y para ese momento ya no quedaba nadie que pudiera hablar por mí”. Martin Niemoeller. (Atribuido a Bertolt Brecht).
“The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by war, by the horrors that we all of us easily imagine. Let us suppose floods wash through our cities, the seas rise… but the storyteller will be there, for it is our imaginations which shape us, keep us, create us — for good and for ill. It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed.” Doris Lessing, Premio Nobel de Literatura.