"For us, democracy is a question of human dignity. This includes the political liberties, the right to freely express our views, the right to criticize and to influence opinion. It embraces the right to health and work, to education and social security."

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Source : "Eurosocialism and America: political economy for the 1980s". Book edited by Nancy I. Lieber, ‎Institute for Democratic Socialism, p. 222, 1982.

Olof Palme

#Views Quotes #Political Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.”
“The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.”
“We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.”
“If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we'd want to be forgotten is no better. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste! (p. 225)”

Source : "Call me by your name". Book by André Aciman, January 23, 2007.
“I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“To explain too much is to steal a person's opportunity to learn, and stealing is against the Law.”
“I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left.”
“If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.”

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