"No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy."

-- Frances Moore LappÃ©

#People Quotes #Promise Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.”

Source : Hedda Hopper (1952). “From under my hat”
“Robbie turned to the house again. "Got a flashlight?" "Of course not." I smirked. "That would make me too well prepared, wouldn't it?”
“Be in love with your life, every detail of it.”

Source : Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1996). “Selected letters, 1940-1956”, Penguin Paperbacks
“Computers have their own aleatoric aspect, too. They crash! But I'm a knob person. I like twiddling knobs.”
“The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. Now it is great to see young people creating funds and giving back in all sorts of productive ways. It's a terrifically satisfying thing.”

Source : "Using My Passion To Help Find A Cure" by Evelyn Lauder, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2007.
“When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.”
“I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, ie.ign.com. August 7, 2003.
“Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessedness that may someday be again.”

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