"The only bright feature of cultural relativism's triumph is that it has become establishment orthodoxy and will thus one day be derided, resisted and overthrown."

-- Jonathan Meades

#One Day Quotes #Triumph Quotes #Cultural Relativism Quotes

“I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference, turning their own fear of ostracism into a weapon with which they could beat the victim away, afraid that being an outsider, and individual even, was somehow infectious.”

Source : Meera Syal (1996). “Anita and Me”, Indus
“The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.”
“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.”
“In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally”
“Man, I would demand that artist come to the table with better variety. I would demand that musicians know music history, not just Hip-Hop, so that we could understand. The better your 'listening ear' is, the better your music will be.”
“Kobe [Bryant] had the biggest contract for a high school kid. He was the first one to get more than a million a year.”
“To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.”
“Look, sometimes the truth could hurt you so I blow my cig smoke right at the truth commercial.”

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