"Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific."

-- Joichi Ito

#Rights Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair.”
“We are all dying and we all have some anxiety about it. And so people are more scared of dying than they are of drugs. If we can show that people who are facing death can be assisted with psychedelics that's a powerful message.”
“Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it.”
“What has happened to protesters in the past was that, basically, the government in 2012 put an end to a series of mass protests by changing laws, by making it possible to arrest anybody for protests, and by making basically a show of imprisoning not just protest leaders, and not specifically protest leaders, but activists, rank-and-file protest participants. That gets across the idea that anybody who joins a protest without being an organizer, without being a visible leader, risks arrest, and not risks just arrest, but years in a Russian jail.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.”
“Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.”

Source : Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.204, Penguin
“My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.”
“I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance. I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it. I can see that without being excited mathematics can look pointless and cold. The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.”

Source : "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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