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Quotes by Norwegian Authors
"No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states."
"I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward."
"What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself."
"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity."
"The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level."
"You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do."
"Europe cannot survive another world war."
"I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation."
"The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer."
"It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution."
"Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong."
"For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven't lost any weight."
"Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention."
"Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool."
"However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science."
"It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport."
"A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed."
"The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time."
"When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness."
"Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society."
"Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing."
"Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately."
"This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution."
"Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash."
"Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war."
"Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view."
"I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts."
"Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press."
"I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times."
"Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes."
"I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!"
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