"I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I'll keep doing so for as long as I live."

-- Leyla Zana

#Rights Quotes #Long Quotes #Brotherhood Quotes

“With passion, if you see the first asparagus of the springtime and you become passionate about it, so much the better, but three weeks later, when youâ€™ve seen that asparagus every day now, passions have subsided. Whatâ€™s going to make you treat the asparagus the same? Â Itâ€™s the desire.”
“It is so gratifying to hear from people who look up to you and see you in these places that they never thought they could ever dream to be. It's emotional. You really feel like you're opening up people's minds, who otherwise thought that they couldn't dream big. That's such a huge opportunity. It's such a gift.”

Source : "Chaske Spencer, Alex Meraz and Julia Jones Press Conference THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE". Press Junket, Los Angeles, collider.com. June 22, 2010.
“Given the way the system was, what could I do as I one person, other than devote my life to fighting to make it different? If I had allowed myself to be filled with hate, I probably wouldn't even be alive, because that hate could've killed me. That hate would've blinded me to my contributions in terms of how I could make a difference. You can't think straight when you're consumed by hate and focused on destroying someone else. Instead, I was bent on trying to destroy a system that was not fair to all of us, and I continue to do that.”
“Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.”
“Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul. You've got to run like an antelope, out of control.”
“Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.”
“Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply.”

Source : Michael Savage (2013). “A Time for War: A Thriller”, p.44, Macmillan
“Our individual consciousness is actually part of a larger system. There are many levels of consciousness, and the creativity used in composing the music comes from another level that is not purely personal.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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