"Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition."

-- Tom Wicker

#Powerful Quotes #Men Quotes #Rights Quotes

“Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.”
“I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.”
“In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational. ... The most dangerous faculty according to Plato is the appetitive for it bonds the soul to the senses and the realm of sense objects.”
“If you follow a trend, by the time it is released it will sound like the same regurgitated music that the public has been hearing for the past eight months (at least.) I am not referring to genres or production that is considered to be timeless or "classic" sounding.”
“People have paid for content. They always have.”
“I was marrying someone I loved because I didn't want to lose them; I didn't see anything wrong with that.”
“If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.”
“Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.”

Source : "I just wanted to be the best in the world" by Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2001.

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