gallodidio: Poetry lecture by Roberto Benigni

(From "La tigre e la neve", in Italian)

Posted by Simone Battiferri - and worth re-posting

The moral me

«If you reach for the stars, you might not quite get one, but you won’t end up with a handful of mud, either.»
-- Leo Burnett

«If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am not for others, what am 'I'? And if not now, when?»
--Hillel

«The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.»
--George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

«All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing»
--attributed to Edmund Burke

«God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.»
-- attributed to Reinhold Niebuhr

«Ci sedemmo dalla parte del torto, visto che tutti gli altri posti erano occupati»
--Bertolt Brecht

«Happiness is not a state of mind, it's a way of life»
--Anonimo

«There's no such thing as a complex solution: either it is simple and workable, or it's not a solution!»
--Anonymous

«First they came for the communists,

and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,

and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,

and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me

and there was no one left to speak out for me.»
-- adapted from Martin Niemoller

«It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change»
--Charles Darwin

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