"History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it."

-- Tony Judt

#Law Quotes #Progress Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“I believe that your own thoughts can bring on positive or negative effects. So the people who feel sick all the time are the ones who are going to get sick, and the people who are constantly worried about what's going on around them... those are the ones in trouble.”
“There are no heroes in a world where heroes canâ€™t die.”
“The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our history abundantly attest.”
“Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is more than the end of the rainbow. Love is the security for which children weep, the yearning of youth, the adhesive that binds marriage, and the lubricant that prevents devastating friction in the home; it is the peace of old age, the sunlight of hope shinning through death.”
“Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.”
“What has changed in 40 years? Itâ€™s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society â€“ today everything, including ethics, has a price.”
“Take pictures with your heart.”

Source : Ruth Gruber (2010). “Ahead of Time: My Early Years as a Foreign Correspondent”, p.224, Open Road Media
“The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.”

Source : "Jerry Falwell: An Unauthorized Profile". Book by William R. Goodman Jr.; James J. H. Price, 1981.

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