"Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless."

-- Norman Borlaug

#Men Quotes #Justice Quotes #Week Quotes

“The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.”
“Without imagination, you live in a small room with the windows closed. Imagination opens the windows and shows us landscapes, horizons that we would not otherwise perceiveâ€¦I want education to empower people to see possibility.”
“I am one with the power and wisdom of the Universe. I have all that I need.”
“Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath.”

Source : Daily Telegraph, January 25, 1989.
“We become aware of the void as we fill it.”

Source : "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.
“Im a firm believer in learning by heart.”
“Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.”
“Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand.”

Source : Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.18, Penguin

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