"Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death."

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Source : "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

Eugene V. Debs

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“I know I'm not an anti-Semitic person.”
“I think no matter what you look like, the key is to first of all be happy with yourself. And then you know if you want to try to improve things that you don't like about yourself, then do it after your appreciate yourself.”

Source : Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.160, Random House
“The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.”
“Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.”
“Reality itself is too twisted.”
“The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.”
“Let's face it, the gene pool needs a little chlorine.”

Source : "QI". Comedy Panel Game, Series Four, Episode 01, September 29, 2006.
“No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.”

Source : Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.497, Univ of California Press

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