"Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice."

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Source : Dae Jung Kim (2004). “The 21st century and the Korean people: selected speeches of Kim Dae-jung, 1998-2004”

Kim Dae-jung

#Justice Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Development Quotes

“For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.”

Source : Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber
“I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.”
“The miracle is that your children will love you with all your imperfections if you can do the same for them.”

Source : "Psychologist Dances Through Motherhood" by Sara Peyton, www.sfgate.com. May 05, 1998.
“I feel like winning a world championship was a hurdle I had to get over.”
“My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.”
“There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be partners forever.”
“Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.”
“I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.”

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