"Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy."

-- Mikhail Gorbachev

#Historical Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Matter Quotes

“it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.”

Source : Mary Oliver (2008). “Red Bird: Poems”, p.28, Beacon Press
“James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.”
“I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.”
“I want to go to Egypt and Japan and open orphanages... a chain of them.”
“The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days”
“A real writer [...] looks not in another writer but himself.”
“Directing is genderless. The only thing...I love men.”
“There are a lot of people whove been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.”

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