"This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings."

-- George R. R. Martin

#Kings Quotes #Honor Quotes #World Quotes

“That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please.”
“If you want to change the world, help the women.”
“We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.”
“"Religion" can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than "education" can be reduced to what happens in schools or "health care" restricted to what doctors do to patients in clinics. The vast majority of healing and learning goes on among parents and children and families and friends, far from the portals of any school or hospital. The same is true for religion. It is going on around us all the time. Religion is larger and more pervasive than churches.”

Source : Harvey Cox (1985). “Seduction Spirit”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
“Remember, you are moving toward a lifetime commitment. Whatever is concealed now will eventually be revealed.”
“The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.”

Source : James Stephens, Shirley Stevens Mulligan (2006). “The Poems of James Stephens”, A Colin Smythe Publication
“In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.”
“I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.”

Source : "Michael Craig-Martin: Up close and impersonal". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2011.

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