"Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience."

-- Anthony Eden

#Dignity Quotes #Blind Quotes #Obedience Quotes

“When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.”
“Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.”
“A judge found it constitutionally intolerable that Louisiana should interject 'religious beliefs and moral judgments into teaching.'”
“It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.”
“I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me”
“In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?”
“Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: Yids, go back to Palestine, so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge shouts at us: Yids, get out of Palestine.”
“Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artificial world of leisure.”

Source : Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.243, Profile Books

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