"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."

-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Honesty Quotes #Integrity Quotes #Character Quotes

“I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.”

Source : Thabo Mbeki (1998). “Africa: the time has come : selected speeches”
“Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet; be useful, be happy.”
“Depth, in a pictorial, plastic sense, is not created by the arrangement of objects one after another toward a vanishing point, in the sense of the Renaissance perspective, but on the contrary (and in absolute denial of this doctrine) by the creation of forces in the sense of push and pull . Nor is depth created by tonal gradation (another doctrine of the academician which, at its culmination, degraded the use of color to a mere function of expressing dark and light).”
“That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.”
“When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?”
“A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.”
“You are made for a person and a place. Jesus is the person. Heaven is the place.”
“Mitt Romney says he believes in America and that he will restore American exceptionalism. I have news for him, we already have an exceptional American as president and we believe in Barack Obama.”

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