"We learn a lot from the mistakes of others, but even more from our own."

“Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.”

“Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.”

“it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles”

“When I do something, I like it when it's perfect. I'm kind of hard on myself that way.”

“Id rather be nauseous than tired, I think.”

“Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?”

Source : Ferdinand Edralin Marcos (1982). “The New Philippine Republic: A Third World Approach to Democracy”

“There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.”

Source : Suzanne Vega (1999). “The passionate eye: the collected writing of Suzanne Vega”, Avon Books

“One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.”