"An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty. ... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself."

-- John Rawls

#Tolerance Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Principles Quotes

“I have reported enough about Islam and terrorism to recognize that a lot of what is at stake is not strictly religion, even though it's also about power and control. In the case of Karachi, like so many other growing cities, it's also about land, mafias, gang activity.”
“My life may be much happier to-morrowHunger and love that press against the body,The two eternal needs we recognise,Desires that so relentlessly pursue one,May get me down or raise me to the skiesAnd make me a Don Bradman or Don Juan.”
“Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.”
“In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.”

Source : "'Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness' by Alexandra Fuller". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. September 19, 2011.
“I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!”
“Ideally there should not be a men's movement but a gender transition movement; only the power of the women's movement necessitates the temporary corrective of a men's movement. And this creates a special challenge for men: There are few political movements filled with healthy people, yet few healthy changes have occurred without political movements.”
“What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?”
“It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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