"Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just waiting to be discovered by Platonic reasoners? Or do people feel revulsion and sympathy when they read accounts of torture, and then invent a story about universal rights to help justify their feelings?"

-- Jonathan Haidt

#Believe Quotes #Rights Quotes #People Quotes

“We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both”
“Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children.”
“The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.”
“But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.”
“It's great when you know somebody and they keep surprising you.”

Source : Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 3, 2010.
“There is a good life waiting for you. Its just waiting for you to grab it”
“Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.”

Source : Hugh Blair, Alfred Howard (Esq.) (1810). “The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.118
“Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.”

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