"But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?"

-- Walter E. Williams

#Justice Quotes #Definitions Quotes #Social Quotes

“In order to gain some insight into the forces that elevate certain products to the level of 'works of art' it is helpful - among other investigations - to look into the economic and political underpinnings of the institutions, individuals and groups who share in the control of power.”

Source : Hans Haacke, Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, England), Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum (1978). “Hans Haacke: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1978; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1979”
“Over the years, I realized there was a Republican philosophy that I liked. And then they lost it. And LIBERTARIANS had more of it. Because what I really believe is, let's spend a little more time leaving everybody alone.”
“Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?”
“No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.”

Source : Letter to Edith. "J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography". Book by Humphrey Carpenter, p. 66, 1977.
“New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.”
“Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Some people 'go' through life; and other people 'grow' through life. Which one are you?”
“Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change, and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal?”

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