"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world."

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Source : Mary Wollstonecraft, Sylvana Tomaselli (1995). “Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

Mary Wollstonecraft

#Justice Quotes #Charity Quotes #World Quotes

“To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.”
“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”

Source : Guillaume Apollinaire (2015). “Selected Poems: with parallel French text”, p.17, OUP Oxford
“When I was a kid... I needed to belong.”
“A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.”
“Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path.”
“Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground ...”
“If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more primitive mode of social intercourse, picking our friends the way children do, - because we like them, - spending time enough with them to get some real good out of them.”

Source : Mary Heaton Vorse (2007). “The Autobiography of an Elderly Woman”, p.57, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.”

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