"The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of drones/Predators [which are] particularly prominently used now in relation to Pakistan and Afghanistan...My concern is that drones/Predators are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law."

-- Philip Alston

#Rights Quotes #Law Quotes #Drones Quotes

“Keep your thinking right and your business will be right.”
“I think it creates so many more opportunities and pitfalls in that you are treading on fresh snow, so you're in a new place.”
“in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.”

Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
“Papa sat down at the table and poured his tea from the china tea set with pink flowers on the edges. I waited for him to ask Jaja and me to take a sip, as he always did. A love sip, he called it, because you shared the little things you loved with the people you love.”
“Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.”
“You can't test courage cautiously.”

Source : Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.102, Canongate Books
“The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.”

Source : National Summit on Terrorism, August 05, 2005.
“Putting our expectations on others is a habit that keeps us feeling frustrated. It diminishes the amount of love we feel.”

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