"The idea of a socialism with a human face was something that I absolutely could support, because it was my idea from the very first."

-- Stefan Heym

#Ideas Quotes #Support Quotes #Faces Quotes

“I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.”
“We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.”
“So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.”
“Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.”

Source : "The Hidden Souls of Words" by Mary Cox Garner, (p. 142), 2004.
“Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost as if the trees know, in their restlessness, in their head-tossing impatience, that something is about to happen.”
“As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members of a sex caste that have survived subordination and deserve to be addressed with honour. Men who transgender cannot occupy such a position.”

Source : Sheila Jeffreys (2014). “Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism”, p.9, Routledge
“Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.”
“I love being a woman. I never wanted to be a man or needed to prove I was just like them. I graduated law school at USC, won moot court honors, and finished high in my graduating class, so I knew who I was. I knew I was intelligent and educated and strong. Being a woman has always helped me in many ways.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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