"By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing...we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Art Quotes #Children Quotes #Hero Quotes

“There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.”

Source : The Straits Times, January 17, 2000.
“With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.”
“I am always locked in my design studio.”
“The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.”
“Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.”
“To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.”

Source : Marilyn French (2013). “Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel”, p.1070, Open Road Media
“It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.”
“Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.”

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