"It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The notions of freedom and human rights were present at the dawn of Western civilization, as ideals at least, but have gradually come to fruition through supreme acts of self-criticism."

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Source : Source: counterjihadreport.com

Ibn Warraq

#Religious Quotes #Gay Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“"It's so beautiful!" she said, a little breathless with her speed. "You never saw anything so beautiful! It has come! I thought it had come that other morning, but it was only coming. It is here now! It has come, the Spring!"”

Source : Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.136, Xist Publishing
“Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who refuses to ask it. He is welcome to tell me that the question does not make sense. Scientifically speaking, it does not. Metaphysically speaking, however, it does. Science can account for many things in the world; it may some day account for all that which the world of phenomena actually is. But why anything at all is, or exists, science knows not, precisely because it cannot even ask the question.”
“I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.”
“I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.”
“Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.”

Source : "Easy does it: Yotam Ottolenghi's brunch dishes" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2014.
“And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it.”

Source : "Exclusive: Gov. Brewer - We're Not Going to Put Up With Insecure Borders Anymore". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 28, 2010.
“... I think Finance is the one that everybody aspires to, who's serious in politics, because that's where the real decisions are taken and I think it's a fascinating portfolio.”
“The groundwork of all happiness is health.”

Source : The Indicator No. XXXI, 'On the Realities of the Imagination'

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