"I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear annihilation... I believe that even amid today's mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow... I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Peace Quotes #War Quotes #Believe Quotes

“New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped, perverted, premature, forced by the artificiality of their environment.”
“At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!”

Source : Edward Rowland Sill, “At Dawn”
“Where people are using phones in rural areas their risk of brain cancer is higher than in urban areas.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Humans are evolutionarily designed to be paranoid, and they believe in God because they are paranoid,”
“Scientific and technological "solutions" which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.”

Source : E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”
“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
“Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature.”
“I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.”

Source : "Face Time | Patrick Wilson". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. January 6, 2012.

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