"We talk of globalization, and how much money is needed for the education of children in the world, their liberation and rehabilitation just $9 billion which is four days of military expense. Just four days. Nine billion dollars is nothing. But what Americans spent on ice cream just 20 percent of this. One fifth of what you spend on ice creams could bring the children out of the clutches of their masters and put them to school."

-- Kailash Satyarthi

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“To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and dimensions. What value can there be in seeing or experiencing anything for the first time unless it comes as a revelation? And for that to happen, some previously held thought or belief must be confounded, or enhanced, or even transcended. What difference can it make otherwise to see a redwood tree, a tiger, or a humming bird?”

Source : Ted Simon (1984). “Riding Home”
“One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.”
“A natural right in the strict sense is that which is naturally under a person's control, his body with its faculties of movement, feeling, thought, and speech. By extension, a natural right is what a person brings under his control without violating any other person's natural rights.”

Source : "Natural Law, Liberalism and Christianity". Journal of Libertarian Studies, Volume 15, no. 3, 2001.
“To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”
“I am exceedingly angry for no good reason.”

Source : Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.63, LSU Press
“The worst of lusts is vanity.”
“The 'king of hip hop' is always the poster child for capitalism, no matter who it is.”
“I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon observation, eked out by good explanatory diagrams and models, and conveyed by a teacher whose own knowledge has been acquired by a study of the facts; and not the mere catechismal parrot-work which too often usurps the place of elementary teaching.”

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