"The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink."

-- Frank Dobson

#Drinking Quotes #Government Quotes #People Quotes

“Justice demands integrity. Itâ€™s to have a moral universe â€” not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.”
“There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them.”
“Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.”

Source : Paul Morabito, Roberto Martinez, Regis McCafferty, Carolyn O'Connell, Frederick Espiritu (2015). “Mirrored Voices: Best New Poets”, CreateSpace
“Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.”
“It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.”
“Every home is a house of learning either for good or otherwise.”
“The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are authoritarian, rigid, and dominating, the home will increase the climate of oppression. As these authoritarian relations between parents and children intensify, children in their infancy increasingly internalize the paternal authority.”
“In his clearest moments he thinks he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much.”

Source : Damon Galgut (2010). “In a Strange Room”, p.37, Atlantic Books Ltd

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