"We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith."

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Source : Jean-Bertrand Aristide (2000). “Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization”

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#Ethical Quotes #Crisis Quotes #Consensus Quotes

“If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.”
“As an actor you bring some of your own experiences which can make things easier. You build off of it, but your imagination is always the best thing you have as far as creating things I think specifically for what that character is going through. But you're definitely drawing obviously upon things that you can connect to, and then you kind of mold the change that you're making into something that's right for the character.”
“Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny.”
“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State.”
“How far should a person go in the name of true love?”

Source : "The Choice". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2007.
“No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.”

Source : Kelly Link (2009). “Pretty Monsters”, p.34, Canongate Books
“Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.”
“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.”

Source : Calvin Coolidge (1920). “Law and Order”

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