Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: money art civilization social-commentary survival artist rent make-a-living sellout
You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: god religion law survival rules instinct hunger starvation dilemma the-ten-commandments
In a society that prioritizes man’s health, a cleaner is more important than a lawyer.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: society health survival importance wants needs lawyer cleaner janitor
In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: society food sanity survival farmer sustenance economist
The ceremony was fast so we wouldn't be caught. When it was over, the men all whispered 'Mazel tov' and climbed back onto their shelves. I went up to the boy and pressed the wooden horse into his hands, the only present I could give him. The boy looked at me with big, round eyes. Had I ever been so young?
'We are alive,' I told him. 'We are alive, and that is all that matters. We cannot let them tear us from the pages of the world.'
I said it as much for me as for him. I said it in memory of Uncle Moshe, and my mother and father, and my aunts and other uncles and cousins. The Nazis had put me in a gas chamber. I had thought I was dead, but I was alive. I was a new man that day, just like the bar mitzvah boy. I was a new man, and I was going to survive.
Tags: survival holocaust nazis bar-mitzvah gas-chamber
Remember: You are no one. You have no name. You do not speak, you do not look at them, you do not volunteer for anything. You work, bot not so hard they notice you. Gizela. Zytka. Your parents, Oskar and Mina. They are dead and gone now, Yanek, and we would grieve for them if we could. But we have only one purpose now: survive. Survive at all costs, Yanek. We cannot let these monsters tear us from the pages of the world.
Alan GratzTags: wwii death survival holocaust jews
DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though they have to hide in shame. DID develops as a response to extreme trauma that occurs at an early age and usually over an extended period of time.
Deborah Bray HaddockTags: goal shame survival mental-health mental-illness trauma multiplicity dissociative-identity-disorder multiple-personality-disorder response mpd
Sustainability is best illustrated by those who sell food … just so they afford something to eat.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: food economics survival sustainability sustenance
His red eyes swung in my direction. Without a second glance, he released the dead man's body. It hit the ground with a loud thump, but I couldn't bring myself to look at him. He was already dead, but even if he wasn't, there wasn't a thing in this world I could do for him. My death was waiting in those red eyes as well, if I didn't figure out how to save myself in the next few seconds.
Rose WyntersTags: survival zombies survival-instinct
Nobody should have to die like these people had. I didn't know each of their circumstances, but I had a good guess. These people had died in terror, horror, and pain. More than likely, they had to watch their friends or loved ones die at the same time. Their last moments would have been spent knowing that they would come back and do the same to anyone they could get their hands on, even people they'd spent their life loving.
It was not the way any human being should have to go.
Tags: tragedy deep-thoughts survival sad-but-true zombies last-moments
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