"The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society"

-- Roy Jenkins

#Dirty Quotes #Phrases Quotes #Nasty Quotes

“Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left.”
“African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.”
“Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.”
“Hikmah (Wisdom) is knowing when to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.”

Source : FaceBook post by Boonaa Mohammed from Sep 14, 2014
“It will be, I suppose, a foolhardy Government that tries to push through legislation making knowledge of both official languages one of the qualifications for election to the House of Commons or appointment to the Senate, but maybe it will have to come to this as a price we must pay for equality of the two great language groups of our founding fathers.”

Source : "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 7, (p. 134), 1969.
“Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.”

Source : Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”
“I was always directing; even back when I started on stage. I was always throwing out ideas. I just love creating stories and for some reason people would listen.”
“Music is a conversation between people and their community, you know, people and - and deejaying, it is a way of amplifying that conversation and kind of putting that conversation on blast in a way. But at a very basic level, it's records talking to records.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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