"The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens."

-- Wendell Willkie

#Class Quotes #Citizens Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I am always producing work, but there is always a sort of deadline where you have to finish work. I don't do it for a show. In other words, I am not like a fashion designer where I have a, you know - I have to put out the full line or I have to put out the summer line like that.”
“In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.”

Source : "Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii". Documentary, Music, 1972.
“The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.”
“I was a barefoot earth child for a couple of years.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman.”
“I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.”

Source : George Catlin (1857). “Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: With Letters and Notes Written During Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing ; with 360 Engravings, from the Author's Original Paintings”, p.16
“This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.”
“One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr. Gurgeh." Hamin waved the pipestem round the tables of people. "Rules and laws exist only because we take pleasure in doing what they forbid, but as long as most of the people obey such proscriptions most of the time, they have done their job; blind obedience would imply we are ha!" Hamin chuckled and pointed at the drone with the pipe "no more than robots!”

Source : "The Player of Games (The Culture, Book 2)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 2, p. 279), 1988.

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