"I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Sisterhood Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Good Woman Quotes

“Reform can be accomplished only when attitudes are changed.”
“I no longer need to have what I see as the surface of the dance so connected to the underlying structure.”
“I know how this feels: the tightening of the chest, the panic, the what-have-I-done-wait-I-was-kidding. Eating disorders linger so long undetected, eroding the body in silence, and then they strike. The secret is out. You're dying.”
“There are good one-day players, there are good Test players and vice versa”
“From the time we began to build houses and cities, since we invented the wheel, we have not advanced one step toward happiness. We have always been in halves. As long as we invent and progress in mechanical things and not in love, we shall not achieve happiness.”

Source : Jean Giono (2013). “Blue Boy”, p.150, Read Books Ltd
“Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.”
“There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another.”
“Thousands of alienated young Muslims, most of them born and bred here but who regard themselves as an army within, are waiting for an opportunity to help to destroy the society that sustains them.”

Source : "Britain Ignores the Angry Muslims Within at Its Peril". The Sunday Times, November 04, 2001.

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