"This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human Rights and those excluded from its protective cover. Any reference to universal human rights as an 'unfinished project' to be gradually extended to all people is here a vain ideological chimera - and, faced with this prospect, do we, in the West, have any right to condemn the excluded when they use any means, inclusive of terror, to fight their exclusion?"

-- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek

#Wall Quotes #Mean Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“There's no unemployment insurance if you don't have a job in wrestling. You really have to be committed, to have a love and a passion for the sport, a belief in yourself that you can do it.”
“Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.”

Source : John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs”
“In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to the people - the people... ever easy to deceive and to lead into every excess”
“Who is an aam aadmi? AAP believes that the middle class is part of the aam aadmi, anyone who is tired of this corrupt system is aam aadmi.”
“A man ought to do what he thinks is right”
“If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws.”

Source : Jóhann Sigurjónsson (1916). “Modern Icelandic Plays: Eyvind of the Hills, The Hraun Farm”, p.48, Library of Alexandria
“The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.”
“It's not tragic to die doing something you love.”

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