"To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization."

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Frantz Fanon

#Mean Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Support Quotes

“The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.”
“Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the innocent, and it is baked in the ovens of Auschwitz. There were truths to be learnt and there was wisdom to be gained... but there was a price to to be paid as well. You could not brush up against the future and escape unscathed. You could not see into the forbidden and avoid damage to your sight.”
“The Phantom Menace is not a masterpiece, but it's an example of how imagination, craftsmanship, and technological bravura can fashion superior entertainment out of something that is far from flawless.”

Source : "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,
“It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.”
“The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Terry Bradshaw couldn’t spell ‘cat’ if you spotted him the ‘C’ and the ‘A’.”

Source : Thomas Henderson (1988). “Out of Control”, Pocket
“I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.”

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