"Everybody’s got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don’t got is power."

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Source : Justin Torres (2012). “We the Animals”, p.96, Granta Books

Justin Torres

#Baby Quotes #Men Quotes #Rights Quotes

“All he said was, "Here, have your dinfast. Then we can start packing." "Dinfast," Nick repeated. "Dinner and breakfast!" Alan said triumphantly. "Like brunch." Nick subjected him to a long, judgemental stare. "There's something very wrong with you," he said at last. "I thought you should know.”
“The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.”
“There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.”
“I didn't have to go to school, graduate and then go, What am I going to do? I knew from the beginning.”
“I want to tell them (western countries) just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out.”
“We don't get offered crises, they arrive.”
“Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.”
“It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.”

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