Irene Fernandez famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We now have a global community that calculates how to maximize the benefits for a few at the expense of the majority
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When I see the migrant workers broken bodies and eyes without hope, I want to embrace and wipe away their fears. It makes me angry and helps me to keep fighting the oppressive system.
-- Irene Fernandez
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Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.
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We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.
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Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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I want everyone to keep the property that he has acquired for himself according to the principle:benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual. But the state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property.
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I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.
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If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
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Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
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A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.
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My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently.
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