"If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed."

-- David Hackworth

#Sound Quotes #Feckless Quotes #Moral Quotes

“Parents sometimes think of newborns as helpless creatures, but in fact parents' behavior is much more under the infant's control than the reverse. Does he come running when you cry?”
“I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected asteroid moving across their fields of vision with menacing speed. At that point it will be too late!”
“Tenderness is the rest of passion.”
“For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk.”
“I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.”
“Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.”

Source : "Adventures on the High Seas". Interview with Demarian Williams, www.scholastic.com.
“And of course, Indonesian people are above all scared of being 'different'. Being different here is punished brutally. Different people get mocked, ostracized, raped, tortured, and murdered. They are banned. To be a Communist is banned. To be gay is banned. To be an atheist is banned. To be a Taoist is banned. Being one of a thousand things is banned.”
“There is nothing wrong with people that reasoning with them won't aggravate!”

Source : Sam Horn (2004). “Tongue Fu! at School: 30 Ways to Get Along Better with Teachers, Principals, Students, and Parents”, p.98, Taylor Trade Publications

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