"It is neither easy nor agreeable to dredge this abyss of viciousness, and yet I think it must be done, because what could be perpetrated yesterday could be attempted again tomorrow, could overwhelm us and our children. One is tempted to turn away with a grimace and close one's mind: this is a temptation one must resist. In fact, the existence of the death squads had a meaning, a message: 'We, the master race, are your destroyers, but you are no better than we are; if we so wish, and we do so wish, we can destroy not only your bodies, but also your souls, just as we have destroyed ours."

-- Primo Levi

#Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Race Quotes

“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chilliest land And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.”
“I get really frustrated with people who turn their noses up at talent shows like 'The Voice' and 'X-Factor.'”
“I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again.”
“I love cops. I think you have to walk in their shoes to understand, you know when they use violence, Michael Brown in Ferguson, a classic case.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs.”

Source : Maureen Johnson (2009). “The Key to the Golden Firebird”, Harper Collins
“The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.”

Source : "Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1913.
“I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.”
“You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?”

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