"In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world these were privileges that belonged to any slave."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Mark Mirabello

#Complaining Quotes #Citizens Quotes #World Quotes

“When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals”
“I've surprised myself and made another career change. I had a great time at Google, met lots of interesting people, but I met some folks outside doing something completely outrageous, and after much anguish decided to leave Google.”
“Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.”
“The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.”

Source : Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.145
“The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.”
“We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.”
“Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.”
“Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles.”

Source : "The Gospel and Multiethnic Churches: An Interview with Derwin Gray". Interview with Preston Sprinkle, www.patheos.com. January 11, 2016.

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