"Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world."

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Source : Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”

Etty Hillesum

#Peace Quotes #World Quotes #Moral Quotes

“You keep showing up here? Being who you are?' There was a pause. 'I'm going to fall in love with you.' -Rehvenge”
“Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.”
“In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.”

Source : "Why Western-style democracy is not suitable for Africa" by George Ayittey, www.cnn.com. August 20, 2010.
“When men change, maybe Bond will change.”

Source : "Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson for 'Quantum of Solace'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. November 4, 2008.
“Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”

Source : Nalo Hopkinson (2013). “Sister Mine”, p.110, Hachette UK
“To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex.”
“Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude.”
“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

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