Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessor.
– Emil M Cioran
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- Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time. – Emil M Cioran
- Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life. – Emil M Cioran
- By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing. – Emil M Cioran
- If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God. – Emil M Cioran
- For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won’t collapse. – Emil M Cioran
- I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. – Emil M Cioran
- True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes. – Emil M Cioran
- Compassion is a sign of superficiality: broken destinies and unrelenting misery either make you scream or turn you to stone. – Emil M Cioran
- We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job… – Emil M Cioran
- What they ask you for is actions, proofs, works, and all you can produce are transformed tears. – Emil M Cioran
- One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland – and no other. – Emil M Cioran
- Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget. – Emil M Cioran
- We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves. – Emil M Cioran
- The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude, we find there the shadow they have cast. – Emil M Cioran
- The cynicism of utter solitude is a calvary relieved by insolence. – Emil M Cioran
- the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life. – Emil M Cioran
- I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece. – Emil M Cioran
- Ambition is a drug that turns it’s addicts into potential madmen. – Emil M Cioran
- Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. – Emil M Cioran
- When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country – Martin Luther King Jr
- Choice of justice is better than injustice if even you got hold of the injustice it from any since that since is nonsense. – MRishad Sakhi
- Progressing at a snail’s pace is still progress, and slow progress is better than no progress. Never be stagnant, and never give up. – Richelle E Goodrich
- No matter how advanced its progress, any generation that neglects its spiritual and moral life is going to disintegrate. – Billy Graham
- In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self. – Mahavira
- You set the standard for how people will treat and regard you, by how you treat and regard yourself. – Bryant McGill
- Human beings are consistent with regard to codes of honor, but endlessly fickle with regard to whom those codes apply. E.N. Wilson – Andrew Zolli
- This generation does not understand the wealth of time. No wonder there are only a few superstars and great men emerging from this generation. – Sunday Adelaja
- Why read the current generation of text books when you have the ability to research and write the next generation of text books. – Steven Magee
- War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance. – Guy Sajer
- Homemaking is a passion you can pass on from generation to generation. – Elizabeth George
- Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. – Edwin Powell Hubble
- Heralds of the gospel have been needed in every generation. This generation is no different. – Katy Kauffman
- A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. – Max Gluckman
- Real Fathers make a positive impact on their generation, and so give the next generation the advantage of a better nation to live in – Fela Durotoye
- Serving my generation with excellence will mean in turn, my generation can lead with excellence. – Onyi Anyado
- Thanks to technology, the future generation will be able to see Sachin’s recorded innings and will accept that our generation was most lucky. – Amit Kalantri
- From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch. – Laurence Overmire
- Serving my generation with excellence will in turn mean my generation can lead, with excellence. – Onyi Anyado
- From generation to generation, America should never be the same country. – Bryant McGill