"When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this."

-- Howard Zinn

#Law Quotes #People Quotes #Leader Quotes

“Time had changed the magical to mundane”
“India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.”
“We are the nation of dreams. We are seers. We are wizards. We speak in visions. Our letters are like flocks of doves, released from under our hats. We have only to stretch out our hand and desire, and what we wish for settles like a kerchief in our palm. We are a race of sorcerers, enchanters. We are Atlantis. We are the wizard-isle of Mu.”
“We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.”

Source : Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.245, Random House
“There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.”

Source : Francis I, to his mother. Written in the Letter of safe conduct given to the Viceroy of Naples for the Commander Penalosa the morning after Pavia in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 372-375), 1922.
“God no longer simply stands before us as the One who is totally Other. He is within us, and we are in him. His dynamic enters into us and then seeks to spread outward to others until it fills the world, so that his love can truly become the dominant measure of the world.”
“The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Wherever you are - be all there.”

Source : Student Commencement Speech by Allie Simmons, news.furman.edu. May 10, 2014.

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