Yuuko Ichihara (xxxHolic)
No matter how unimportant the meeting... how small the outcome... it will always have some later effect on you. It can be the smallest of things. It can be the shortest of moments. It may never be remembered. It may have never been recorded. But a bond of fate never disappears once tied.
Yuuko Ichihara (xxxHolic)
Your happiness is your own business. It's a promise you make to yourself. It is a reward you give yourself for accomplishing what you set out to do, for achieving what you strive for. But if you fail to reward yourself for what you have accomplished, then you are essentially breaking a promise to yourself. It's like a breach of contract, compensation must always be made. You must pay all of the debts that you made, even to yourself.
Rosa Luxemburg
Democracy is indispensable to the working class, because only through the exercise of its democratic rights, in the struggle for democracy, can the proletariat become aware of its class interests and its historic task.
Rosa Luxemburg
Order prevails in Berlin! You foolish lackeys! Your "order" is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will "rise up again, clashing its weapons," and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!
Rosa Luxemburg
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.
Suito Kusanagi (The Sky Crawlers)
No matter the era, war has never been completely eradicated, because the reality of it has always been important to humans. The reality of someone fighting somewhere, even now, is a necessity in the human social system. And that need can never be fulfilled by lies. It's not enough to read what wars are like in textbook stories. The reality of people dying, the reports of that news on the TV: we can't maintain peace without seeing those tragedies. We would cease to understand the meaning of peace.
