"There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. â€”MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE"

-- Michelle Moran

#Rights Quotes #Lafayette Quotes #Natural Quotes

“I'll always be thankful for what I have right now. I feel that it's been a blessing. But I know my time will come. It's just the way life is.”
“A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.”
“The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in the earthly future of mankind; Orthodoxy gave away the earth into the hands of the state because of its own non-belief in man and mankind, because of its nihilistic attitude towards the world. Orthodoxy does not believe in the religious ordering of human life upon the earth, and it compensates for its own hopeless pessimism by a call for the forceful ordering of it by state authority.”
“And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.”
“In the feeding of hospital patients, more attention should be given to providing tasty and attractive meals, and less to the nutritive quality of the food.”
“once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.”
“I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.”
“This peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for it have been in the heart of every human being in every century and every civilization.”

Source : Address to faculty, students and guests at Harvard University's Sanders Theater, August 2004.

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