"Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence."

-- Alcaeus

#Men Quotes #Cities Quotes #Brave Quotes

“When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce.”
“While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.”

Source : "Behind My Eyes: Poems". Book by Li-Young Lee, 2008.
“Hello! Your dear father is unfortunately very dead," he called. "And you said my dispersal system would never work!”
“Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.”
“Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.”
“By millions of years, time winged onward through eternity, to the end - the end, of which, in the old-earth days, I had thought remotely, and in hazily speculative fashion. And now, it was approaching in a manner of which none had ever dreamed.”
“In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!”

Source : "Chicago". Record on the spoken word album "Wake Up America!", 1971.
“The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world.”

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