"Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection"

-- Charles Darwin

#Natural Quotes #Natural Selection Quotes

“The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact exist. I’m not going to go around putting pronouns on everything. Things are often deeply compromised by the set of assumptions you bring to the world, which is this black or white, this male or female.”
“Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.”
“The real revolution is the revolution of consciousness and each one of us first needs to eliminate the divisionary, materialistic noise we have been conditioned to think is true; while discovering, amplifying, and aligning with the signal coming from our true empirical oneness. It is up to you.”
“The health dollar is very precious. When someone has such a bad condition as brain cancer, we know they're going to die and they're usually going to die within 12 months of diagnosis. They cost a lot of money to keep the patient alive for that period of time. Is it really worth it?”
“Press on! If Fortune play thee false To-day, tomorrow she'll be true; Whom now she sinks she now exalts, Taking old gifts and granting new, The wisdom of the present hour Makes up the follies past and gone; To weakness, strength succeeds, and power From frailty springs! Press on, press on!”
“The greatest natural resource that any country can have is its children.”
“Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.”
“Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change”

Source : Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (2013). “A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer”, p.124, Portobello Books

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