"In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare then the blessings enjoyed by Spaniards of prudence, genius, magnanimity, temperance, humanity, and religion with those of the little men [the Indians] in whom you will scarcely find even vestiges of humanity. . . . How can we doubt that these people - so uncivilized, so barbaric, contaminated with so many impieties and obscenities - have been justly conquered?""

-- Juan Gines de Sepulveda

#Blessing Quotes #Men Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“The anger came creeping back like the leak from a dripping water tank, the fall of each individual drop passing almost unnoticed until I realized I was soaked with the emotion.”

Source : Anthony Loyd (2014). “My War Gone By, I Miss It So”, p.211, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.”
“Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them.”

Source : Reinaldo Arenas (2010). “Before Night Falls”, p.5, Profile Books
“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”
“Don't be afraid to be a loner but be sure that you are correct in your judgement.”
“I'm aware if I'm playing at my best I'm tough to beat. And I enjoy that,”
“I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.”
“a Yea might turn in to a Nae and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied. In other talk you argument out until you get the answer you want”

Source : "The Mouse that Roared". Book by Leonard Wibberley, p. 5, 1983.

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