"We, as citizens or members of people's organisations, can preserve and nourish basic principles needed for long-term efforts aimed at transforming a totalitarian and war-torn society into a democratic one."

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Source : Katarina Kruhonja's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1998.

Katarina Kruhonja

#War Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people. I can't be certain of this, since only about 10 million have ever come back to thank me.”
“Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty”
“Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.”
“I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.”
“Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.”
“There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”
“On coaching the 1970s Philadelphia Flyers: Nobody likes us. Nobody outside Philadelphia, that is. In fact, the nicest thing people say about us is that we are a bunch of muggers.”
“I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?”

Source : Song: Ghetto Square Dance, Album: El Cool Magnifico

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