"Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction."

-- Christopher Lasch

#Defense Quotes #Definitions Quotes #Conviction Quotes

“The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use of words by human agents to form attitudes or to induce actions in other human agents.”
“I don't know what's up there / Beyond the sky”

Source : Song: A Change Is Gonna Come
“The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.”
“MSNBC will never be as liberal as Fox is conservative.”
“You can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging.”
“Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.”

Source : Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Rates of Exchange”, p.140, Pan Macmillan
“I've always thought about gender, as someone who has been categorically "gender nonconforming" for my entire life, I was forced to think about it, but obviously I became more conscious of it as a social issue as I've gotten older. And as I've met more folks who are genderqueer or trans, it's been really enlightening to hear their stories, and it got me thinking about my own gender history.”
“If you [Donald Trump] do visit this country [UK], take time to visit the Mosques. Take time to reflect on how dangerous that kind of rhetoric is.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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