"For the world to become a better place, someone has to pay a price, I think it's glorious to sacrifice for the sake of social progress and fighting injustice."

-- Xu Zhiyong

#Sacrifice Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.”

Source : Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers
“If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor.”
“Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.”

Source : Melanie Rawn (2005). “The Star Scroll”, p.315, Penguin
“Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.”
“The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.”
“I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.”
“I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though.”
“It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other.”

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