“Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.” —Novalis [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772–1801)
“All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity—their links with their dead and the unborn.” —John Berger (b. 1926)
“Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit.” —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)