"Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems."

-- Alva Myrdal

#Country Quotes #Citizens Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.”
“Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.”
“I wouldn't say that cutting was pleasurable, but there is a sense of euphoria that follows cutting yourself. The quick pinch of pain and the sight of blood snaps you back to the surface and you start to appreciate being alive.”
“I love being in a show. I love the community aspect of it. I like the discipline of it, too.”

Source : "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Joel Grey". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. November 25, 2003.
“I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.”
“About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.”
“The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. . . . There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.”
“It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.”

Source : François Guizot (1846). “The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution”, p.134

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