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“You may build walls in my path, but I will knock them down. then all your hard work only made me stronger, and all you have is gravel.”
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“Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses....”
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“In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.”
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“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”
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“People are often shy to acknowledge that they are Bengalis. They somehow take pride in saying that they cannot speak or read the language.”
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“Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us ofbeing bewitched by them. So we are told to stop, to shut off lines of inquiry, not to find things puzzling nor to seek explanations. This is intellectual suicide.”
Source : Simon Blackburn (1993). “Essays in Quasi-Realism”, p.51, Oxford University Press
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“Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions - those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.”
Source : Douglas MacArthur's speech to the Michigan Legislature in Lansing (May 15, 1952) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), June 14, 2000.
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“I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.”
