"But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people that they abuse their freedom, so recently won?"

-- Elie Wiesel

#Religious Quotes #People Quotes #Evil Quotes

“I don't look at paying $8 billion for the directories business of Qwest as the thing that would really excite me... I'm looking at a connection to the human being where it's interesting.”

Source : Interview with Sharon Pian Chan, community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. June 2, 2002.
“We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.”
“I think the real sort of decision moment for me was president Donald Trump election night and just realizing that there was something happening in the country and in the world that had a very deep relationship to the nature of the current media landscape and that this opportunity that was in front of me could be a place to try to work on that. To try to fix what was going wrong and, or at least make an attempt.”
“When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.”

Source : My Mortal Enemy pt. 1, ch. 6 (1926)
“History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.”

Source : Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.15, Macmillan
“As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive”
“And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera on the radio, and to go that night to an Indian restaurant with a friend and be home by nine o'clock - these are enough. They are gifts.”
“The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.”

Source : Joseph Glanvill (1885). “Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science”

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