A Quote by Elsa Triolet
There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.
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The matriarchal society 1300 years ago in Egypt was a peaceful society; that's where you had no war for thousands of years! When they switched to patriarchal society, when the male energy ruled, we became obsessed with the greed. Now we are in this time of intense greed!
It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger.
And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it.
For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.
There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.
The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.
Chase your happiness in a way you desire rather than going for anybody else's or society's idea of happiness.
Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.
Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.
Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.
The eagles ruled the air as the tribes ruled the land.
The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.
Happiness is the sense that one matters. Happiness is an abiding enthusiasm. Happiness is single-mindedness. Happiness is whole-heartedness. Happiness is a by-product. Happiness is faith.
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