"President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now."

-- Roy Wilkins

#War Quotes #Men Quotes #Rights Quotes

“Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.”
“We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.”
“No, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this environment and come to be comfortable here and not resent it anymore. And I am afraid that as the years go by that I may forget, I may begin to lose my memories of the mountains and the woods and that's what really worries me, that I might lose those memories, and lose that sense of contact with wild nature in general. But I am not afraid they are going to break my spirit.”

Source : "Interview with Ted Kaczynski". "Green Anarchist" Magazine,
“There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"”
“From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.”
“A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.”
“However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didnâ€™t hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did in the old days. She flaunted it and, having been given more than any woman before her, demanded even more than that.”

Source : J. Courtney Sullivan (2013). “The Engagements”, p.176, Vintage

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