"The problem is, we've had three generations of Iranians who have come to really hate the United States. The Persians used to be a pretty strong - my on problem with people who say don't talk to him."

“I'm a primate, you know? I need to be pro-social, like all of us; I need to be pro-social and affiliative. I need to sit at the campfire with other women.”

“The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.”

Source : "The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas". Book by Robert W. McChesney, May 1, 2008.

“The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainable—is a loss, not a gain, in true sophistication. The secular substitute—the belief in the perfection of life on earth by the endless extension of a choice of pleasures—is not merely callow by comparison but much less realistic in its understanding of human nature.”

Source : Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee

“More than accepted, it's encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.”

Source : "Depeche Mode: 'We're dysfunctional. Maybe that's what makes us tick'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2013.

“I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.”

“The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.”

“Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.”

“Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice.”

Source : "Rights Expert Urges the UN General Assembly to Adopt a More Decisive Role in Peace-making". "Alfred de Zayas' Human Rights Corner" blog, dezayasalfred.wordpress.com. September 26, 2013.