"Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help."

-- Lakhdar Brahimi

#People Quotes #Needs Quotes #Helping Quotes

“What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.”
“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society... then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them... We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.”

Source : Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Society and its Enemies”, p.668, Routledge
“I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.”
“Consider, children ... the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother's stove, even for a fraction of a second. That is an experience which most of you have suffered. Now try to imagine that pain, not simply on a fingertip but spread over the whole surface of your body, and not for a mere second, but everlastingly. That, children, is hellfire.”
“My kids remind me every day how much I don't know.”
“Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it-whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night.”
“The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.”
“Not only two years, but even until twenty, two hundred, two thousand yearswe always have to be together.â€â€œbecause I have the members, I have never felt lonely.”

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