"My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe that humans are not born to suffer the misery of hunger and poverty. They suffer now as they did in the past because we turn our heads away from this issue."

-- Muhammad Yunus

#Believe Quotes #Creativity Quotes #Past Quotes

“Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.”
“Keith Powell and Judah Friedlander are like brothers to me.”

Source : "Face Time | Katrina Bowden". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. August 9, 2011.
“I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.”
“Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with Eisenhower when Iran seized western oil companies. The Americans, the British, and the Israelis, as I remember, launched an attack to try to reclaim it and - or at least the British and the Israelis did and Eisenhower vetoed it.”

Source : "What do you think of the plan for a mosque in New York City near Ground Zero?". Podcast on peikoff.com, June 28, 2010.
“The Czech Republic stood with the U.S., Canada and a handful of other countries against the prevailing international current, but history has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.”

Source : "PM: Israel committed to Palestinian peace deal". www.ynetnews.com. December 5, 2012.
“Every crime destroys more Edens than our own”
“I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again.”
“Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.”

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