"Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product (GNP)."

-- Muhammad Yunus

#Issues Quotes #Rights Quotes #Development Quotes

“I will never be able to move on as much as people would like me to.”
“Be an opener of doors”
“I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.”

Source : "Mozart of film music". Interview with Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.
“All records are made to be broken.”

Source : Interview with Ken Shouler, www.espn.com. October 28, 2006.
“God is not only true, but Truth itself.”

Source : Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.36, TAN Books
“Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.”
“I feel like you can have entertainment, and you can laugh, but during that period of time you can also think, and people should get upset. America is spending a lot of time and money pretending to be searching for people who we're not really searching for. That is enough to get someone angry.”
“Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.”

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