"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

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“Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when we diagnose each case... we invariably find that the cause of death has been either War or Class or some combination of the two.”

Source : Arnold J. Toynbee (1949). “Civilization on Trial”
“I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.”

Source : "Oral history interview with Donald Judd" by Bruce Hooton, www.aaa.si.edu. February 3, 1965.
“And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine”
“Confidence can get you where you want to go, and getting there is a daily process. It's so much easier when you feel good about yourself, your abilities and talents.”
“I learned to love dance for its own sake.”
“When a man does not admit that he is an animal, he is less than an animal. Not more but less.”

Source : Michael McClure (1993). “Lighting the corners: on art, nature, and the visionary : essays and interviews”, University of New Mexico Press
“Millions of Americans would still despair in the eight long years of the Depression that lay ahead and many of their individual dreams would be dashed on the rocks of economic hardship. But collectively, the country was in a new place, with a new confidence that the federal government would actively try to solve problems rather than fiddle or cater to the rich. Hope was no longer for Pollyannas; the cynics about the American system were in retreat.”

Source : Jonathan Alter (2007). “The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope”, p.306, Simon and Schuster
“The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.”

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