"moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are."

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Source : Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition”, p.41, Zed Books

Nawal El Saadawi

#People Quotes #Our Society Quotes #Morality Quotes

“I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again.”
“Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.”
“Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds us why we watch them and make them, a beautifully told story that deserves to be not only remembered, but acknowledged for its writing.”
“One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.”
“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”

Source : Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Contarini Fleming, v. 2. Count Alarcos. Popanilla”
“That's one thing about Dave Filoni. He doesn't call me up unless there's something to think about or there's something that we have to work out on a philosophical or moral or a mythological riddle that we need to solve. Some sort of moral conundrum that we need to place our feet on one side or the other. It's fun when we can ambiguously put those feet into the sand and let the fans discover for itself what it all means.”
“When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.”

Source : Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.20, Harper Collins
“The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave....”

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