"Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!"

-- John Brown

#Slavery Quotes #Destruction Quotes #Witness Quotes

“Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.”
“I think U.N. organizations are important organizations. They exist for good reasons. And we also admit that there is room for us to improve the way we do business. The WHO will be a very positive and proactive partner in the overall U.N. reform, which is also important.”
“If you are honest with yourself and can look into a mirror and believe that you have given 100 percent, you should feel proud. If you cannot, then there is more work to be done.”
“Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.”
“Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.”
“The government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy - we fight wars for capitalism and for oil.”
“The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.”

Source : John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.59, Cambridge University Press
“Conservatives or better, pro- corporate apologists hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like " progress ," " opportunity ," and " individualism " into tools for making the plunder of America sound like divine right ... This "degenerate and unlovely age," as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.”

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