"We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope"

-- Carl F. H. Henry

#Giving Quotes #World Quotes #Ethics Quotes

“For many years, questions about the meaning of life were dismissed as senseless. We were told that life, not being a word or sentence or anything language-like, can't intelligibly be said to have meaning. An encouraging development in the last couple of decades is a return by philosophers to addressing - as nearly all people do at some time or another - the question of life's meaning.”
“Shania Twain ... has done more for country and western than heartbreak and whiskey combined.”
“Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Aug 26, 2011
“In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.”
“This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?”
“Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'”
“The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes for irony, name-calling passes for insight, bleeped-out four-letter words pass for wit, and lowest-common-denominator jokes pass for analysis. Satire should have a point of view. It doesn't have to get a belly laugh. It does have to present criticism.”

Source : "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.
“I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner dress of red veiling with Oriental trimming (makes me look like a Gipsy), and another of rose-coloured challis, and a grey street suit, and an every-day dress for classes. That wouldn't be an awfully big wardrobe for Julia Rutledge Pendleton, perhaps, but for Jerusha Abbott - Oh, my!”

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