"I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country."

-- Sally Kirkland

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Europe Quotes

“Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to the pointâ€“and couch your desires in such natural logic that no one can raise objections. Then move on.”
“Can you ever â€œsolveâ€ poverty? Â Can you ever â€œsolveâ€ crime? Â Can you ever â€œsolveâ€ disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Â Hell no.”
“The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.”

Source : FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from Nov 24, 2016
“We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.”

Source : Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.11, Penguin
“We believe that war is an inevitable consequence of the current global economic situation.”
“one keeps one's friends better when one is alone. The corollary to this is that one loses one's friends, slowly, when one sees them too often or when they visit for too long a time.”

Source : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.45, Open Road Media
“Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experienceâ€¦it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.”
“Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.”

Source : Brian Selznick (2015). “Wonderstruck”, p.221, Scholastic

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