"We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care."

-- Kofi Annan

#Drinking Quotes #Water Quotes #Battle Quotes

“We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.”
“Ray Gomez is one of the greatest guitarists of all times!”
“Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”

Source : FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 04, 2016
“It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of being and seeing and acting above not just that of animals, but also above that of the majority of subhuman (never to be self-realized) humans who will never draw themselves into a self-punishing position of focal self-diagnosis and self-accountability.”
“It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.”
“There's never been a good government.”
“Despite winning the world championship, it has not altered the reality of the situation.”
“Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The accumulation of capital, or the acquisition of money, are endeavors par excellence which establish a quantifiable goal: hence they are directly amenable to maximization formulae.”

Source : John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.120, Taylor & Francis

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