"Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury."

-- Alexander von Humboldt

#Ignorance Quotes #Animal Quotes #Luxury Quotes

“To hit 100 miles per hour, that's something. I couldn't believe it when I first saw it, but it's something I can do and think about.”
“It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people wash your clothes and bring you plates of stuff--get undercut by having to play football.”
“The experimental film scene was very much misogynistic as well. I don't know if you have read what little attention was given to the films of Joyce Wieland, who was the wife of Michael Snow. Michael was the "genius" and she was not. If you look at the films they're wonderful, but very different. Michael was very proud of the films too, so it was not coming from him. It was coming from the general environment. I think both Chantal Akerman and I shared that. We wanted to find a language, which was the language of women.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.”
“Patience is a conquering virtue.”

Source : Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”
“I'm asking Muslims in the West a very basic question: Will we remain spiritually infantile, caving to cultural pressures to clam up and conform, or will we mature into full-fledged citizens, defending the very pluralism that allows us to be in this part of the world in the first place? My question for non-Muslims is equally basic: Will you succumb to the intimidation of being called "racists," or will you finally challenge us Muslims to take responsibility for our role in what ails Islam?”

Source : "Irshad Manji: The Trouble with Islam Today". www.pbs.org. August 18, 2006.
“In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be constantly reminded that there are still existent Indigenous peoples and communities in North America, but whether left or right, recent immigrant or descendants of settlers, even descendants of enslaved Africans, the Native presence is not a consideration in the day to day life of individuals and municipal, state and national governments.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

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