"He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other."

-- Tommy Douglas

#Men Quotes #Promise Quotes #Politics Quotes

“If you run from me, I will chase you, and I'll find you....”
“I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.”
“The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.”

Source : Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”
“Don't correct me, you don't have any rights over me." "What kind of life is this? So I sit at home , entirely dependent on this man, and then it turns out his heart was never with me. How is it possible to force someone to love me?”

Source : Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity”, p.75, Random House
“Peace is a culture that we create by putting it in the curriculum for young people, through creating this next generation where young people get a chance to go across borders, across cultures, to learn more about each other's life, to create a global community, learn about opportunities for helping others. It's investing in peace and tolerance training, ending the gap between rich and poor.”
“In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.”

Source : Geoff Ryman (2013). “Paradise Tales: and Other Stories”, p.225, Small Beer Press
“You're a Good Little Slave”
“"Motherboard," for me, has four different levels: the bottom part is the water, vegetation, and growth. The second part is the world with figures and animals; there's chaos and civilization. The third part is the digital zone - these red things are turning into really loud digital sounds. Then the fourth level is like ether and things turning into air. This idea of how we're becoming partly digitalized is really interesting to me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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