"Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy."

-- Jacques Verges

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Office Quotes

“We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.”

Source : "BILL GROSS: 'We Are Witnessing The Death Of Abundance'" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. February 01, 2012.
“I love and respect women. I work mostly with women.”
“States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs...”

Source : H.G. Wells (2015). “A Short History of the World”, p.308, Xist Publishing
“Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.”
“My pick for Best Political Move of the Year, which is the decisive (ph) and this means it is actually the best political movement is Bill Clinton getting on the phone and encouraging Donald Trump to run for the president.”
“An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as a source of personal power, let alone political power. I don't think that women now have that same sense that their lives as mothers gives them any special power or virtue. I think women see their lives as mothers as an adjunct to their working lives - a fulfilling and important adjunct, to be sure - but something they do in addition to working in the public realm, not because being a wife and mother gives them a distinct edge in improving the world as we know it.”
“Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century [America].”

Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.
“My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.”

Source : "The Van Helsing Interviews: Richard Roxburgh". Interview with Staci Layne Wilson, www.horror.com. May 2003.

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