"Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society."

-- Andrei Sakharov

#Country Quotes #Opening Up Quotes #Rights Quotes

“I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes.”
“The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.”
“A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.”

Source : Willard Gaylin (1982). “The Killing of Bonnie Garland: A Question of Justice”, Simon & Schuster
“If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you”
“In our family, at this point,[Sunday School] its not a choice for my kids. It's a duty for us as parents to give them faith as a foundation and hope that when they bemuse older teens and young adults they will choose the same thing for themselves.”

Source : Source: frankviola.org
“As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.”
“We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.”
“All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.”

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