Quotes
Authors
Zoya Phan

"In Burma, we are being told by so-called experts and some governments that we must be patient and that there can be incremental change through Parliament. The UN did this, and failed spectacularly, and while they did, the human rights situation got worse. The dictatorship ignored the UN and international community, making not a single concession. Now we are being told again these Parliaments are new, we should engage with them and if improved they can bring positive change. I don't place any hope in that."

-- Zoya Phan

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“Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me”
“Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.”

Source : "Is Britishness a generous thing, or has it damaged England?". www.opendemocracy.net. January 17, 2012.
“The seemingly insuperable difficulties of deep-space travel suggest an intention to keep us fixed at home in our own solar system, and the physical nature of our part of the Universe, as well as the basic rules of physics and chemistry, have a warning look about them, like barriers designed to isolate intelligent life. This means that for us, unlike the situation for humble microorganisms, deep-space travel is probably a stark impossibility.”
“Beware of barking at underdogs; don't fight with people who have nothing to lose.”
“But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.”
“He who would eat much must eat little, for by eating less he will live longer, and so be able to eat more.”
“John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.”
“It is peculiar to â€œressentiment criticismâ€ that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.”

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