"You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails."

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Source : David Gerrold (2014). “Under the Eye of God: Trackers, Book One”, p.96, BenBella Books, Inc.

David Gerrold

#Civilization Quotes #Jail Quotes #People Quotes

“As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasnt made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.”

Source : "Daniel Alarcón" by Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.
“The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.”
“We all come unique packages with strength and weakness, and somewhere there is a precious gift in all of us”
“Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.”
“I think Welfare Reform did more harm than good, but one piece of good it did was it changed the attitudes of Americans. If we look at voter surveys even before the recession, the idea that people are poor because they're lazy was much stronger in the early '90s than it was even before the recession. Now with the recession, everybody knows somebody who is poor through no fault of their own. So voter attitudes are more favorable than they've been since the '60s.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work.”
“Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.”
“Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans.”

Source : Emma Forrest (2014). “Thin Skin”, p.53, Bloomsbury Publishing

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