"What I'm interested in is the protection of children from violence, and they are exposed to violence every single day in the form of, as it's called, the news. Then you wonder why the children are running around, doing the things in the streets, doing the things that they've seen the adults doing in the so-called news."

-- Sinead O'Connor

#Running Quotes #Children Quotes #News Quotes

“No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States Â of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders”
“The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.”
“I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.”
“Nobody has a right to whip me but my own master, and nobody shall do so if I can prevent it”

Source : Elizabeth Keckley (1868). “Behind the scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White house”, p.33
“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.”
“It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.”
“I persist in performing.”
“Daily vitamins are of no value.”

Source : "Stephen Colbert Author Interview: ‘Denialism’ Author Michael Specter: We’re Lying To Ourselves About Vitamins, Antioxidants, And Vaccinations". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2010.

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