"Though editorialists at The New York Times and The Washington Post still don't get it, most Democrats in Congress finally do: Today's trade disputes are no longer mostly about tariffs, quotas, or free entry of goods. They are about the ground rules for capitalism. Are there to be only property rights? What about the other rights that liberal democracies have fought for since the 1880s?"

-- Robert Kuttner

#New York Quotes #Rights Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?”
“Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.”

Source : Irving Howe (1995). “A Critic's Notebook”, Harvest Books
“Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.”

Source : "Ben Lewin on The Sessions: 'You can reach women without brute force'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2013.
“It is God who enables us to return to life after tragedy-not by eradicating all suffering but by giving us the strength and the courage to heal what we can heal.”

Source : Naomi Levy (2007). “Talking to God: Personal Prayers for Times of Joy, Sadness, Struggle, and Celebration”, p.13, Knopf
“Play your heart out each game, so you can look your teammates in the eyes and ask, without saying it, 'I played full out, did you?'”
“No more will, no more soul, no more life!”

Source : George Ohsawa (1986). “Gandhi: The Eternal Youth”
“You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.”
“Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the cape of civilisation But our souls live in the stone age”

Source : Nizar Qabbani, “Verse”

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