"Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf."

-- Margaret Atwood

#World Quotes #Deaf Quotes

“One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.”

Source : Roy Hattersley's remarks at the House of Commons debate, www.publications.parliament.uk. December 17, 1990.
“I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.”
“I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.”
“The risk of working with people you don't respect; the risk of working for a company whose values are incosistent with your own; the risk of compromising what's important; the risk of doing something that fails to express-or even contradicts--who you are. And then there is the most dangerous risk of all--the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet that you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”
“Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.”
“I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.”

Source : Oskar Kokoschka, Marlborough Gallery (1981). “Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980): memorial exhibition”
“A shoe that fits one person pinches another.”
“The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.”

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