"We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now"

-- Alex Salmond

#Scotland Quotes #Independence Quotes #Generations Quotes

“Of all the difficulties in a state, the temper of a true government most felicifies and perpetuates it; too sudden alterations distemper it. Had Nero tuned his kingdom as he did his harp, his harmony had been more honorable, and his reign more prosperous.”
“It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?”
“When I only had one or two synthesisers you learn how to do everything on those things and you know them inside out. I think that's the best way to be with them.”
“If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.”
“The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget.”
“Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us to-day. ... The rulers of the earth have realized long ago what potent poison inheres in the Christian religion. That is the reason they foster it; that is why they leave nothing undone to instill it into the blood of the people. They know only too well that the subtleness of the Christian teachings is a more powerful protection against rebellion and discontent than the club or the gun.”
“So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.”
“I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.”

Source : Interview, edition.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.

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