"The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel."

-- Niall Ferguson

#History Quotes #Racist Quotes #Prosperity Quotes

“The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.”
“Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.”
“For humans, the challenge is to unite soul and role, to discover the hidden wholeness that enables us to be in the world who we are in our souls, and to act in accordance with our deepest and truest natures.”
“Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.”

Source : Philip Reeve (2008). “Here Lies Arthur”
“I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.”
“If you have a beating heart, that's good enough.”
“No matter who you are, where you've come from, what you've been through... You can make a difference in this world.”
“During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.”

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