"I am going around British secondary schools, as a gay man talking about my life, and encouraging schools to get rid of homophobic bullying and to care for their gay members of staff and their gay students."

-- Ian Mckellen

#Bullying Quotes #School Quotes #Gay Quotes

“I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.”

Source : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with lexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.
“The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and won't take them.”
“I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.”
“The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.”
“But â€˜artâ€™ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murgerâ€™s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian model: but the poetry, above all, of linseed oil and turpentine.”
“My comments concerning persons afflicted with AIDS as well as various minority groups have left people wondering if I am a racist.”

Source : "John Rocker Apologizes For Racist Remarks". "CNN News" with Andria Hall, www.cnn.com. March 2, 2000.
“The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.”
“History is driven, over the long haul, by culture - by what men and women honor, cherish, and worship; by what societies deem to be true and good, and by the expressions they give to those convictions in language, literature, and the arts; by what individuals and societies are willing to stake their lives on.”

Source : George Weigel (2005). “The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God”, p.30, Gracewing Publishing

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