"I should like to begin with a philosophical comment. I do not think that when one is speaking of hardships or benefits one can reasonably speak in terms of classes or social groups but only in terms of individuals."

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Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 135), March 29, 1963.

John James Cowperthwaite

#Philosophical Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Class Quotes

“I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affections, feel His invisible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular Providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.”
“[Pope Francis] most recent trip was to Sweden, where he commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. That had triggered one of the biggest splits in Christianity and decades of religious wars. He went so far as to praise Luther, who was once considered a heretic in the church, as a great reformer. So what he's been doing with other Christian churches is trying to heal past wounds and work together toward a shared view of their history.”
“I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human rights issues. We are collective custodians of universal human rights standards, and any sense that we fall into camps of "accuser" and "accused" is absolutely corrosive of our joint purposes. The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the "victim" mode..”
“It is finished, is never said of us”
“Failure is not important, how you overcome it is.”
“Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made.”
“Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.”
“I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.”

Source : Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com. July 4, 2002.

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