"It's not right to respond to terrorism by terrorizing other people. And furthermore, it's not going to help. Then you might say, "Yes, it's terrorizing people, but it's worth doing because it will end terrorism." But how much common sense does it take to know that you cannot end terrorism by indiscriminately dropping bombs?"

-- Howard Zinn

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“In a lot of teen movies nowadays, you just get the rote six stereotypes like the jock, the cool guy, the nerd, the hot girl, the girl who cares, and the girl who has glasses and is supposed to be ugly but is actually beautiful.”
“The assailant is often in the right; the assailed is always.”
“We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.”

Source : "Shirin 'Ebadi - Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate". Interview to Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, www.memri.org. October 24, 2003.
“A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.”
“People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.”

Source : Ernest Gellner (1979). “Legitimation of Belief”, p.99, CUP Archive
“Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same sense that mankind with writing is superhuman compared to mankind before writing.”
“To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in.”
“When posh boys get into trouble they sack the servants.”

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