"[In China at that time:] The penalty for adultery is death by strangulation. Mai-da's mother has added the following note to this section; 'Adultery is a feminine vice. Copulation on the man's part is not his wife's concern, unless he sires a child. Then she must accept the child as one of his homestead."

-- Nora Waln

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Men Quotes

“I've killed my soul by playing the victim.”
“In my view, nobody is really effective in tackling those organized crime networks that are making connections from Africa to Asia to fund and facilitate the poaching of massive volumes of ivory, and then selling it on the Asian market. Very few people have tried globally to tackle that serious organized crime threat that is also linked to militia groups. That needs to change. You need to bring the full weight of government attention to dealing with that.”

Source : "Crawford Allen. Senior Director. Traffic. World Wildlife Fund". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I have more influence now than when I had the power.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When the words â€˜like a girlâ€™ are used to mean something bad, it is profoundly disempowering. I am proud to partner with Always to shed light on how this simple phrase can have a significant and long-lasting impact on girls and women. I am excited to be a part of the movement to redefine â€˜like a girlâ€™ into a positive affirmation.”
“We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity.”

Source : "Cleric: US threats, fruits of insanity". Press TV, October 2007.
“Everybody thinks some times that science is done as a master plan and that somebody like me came from Mars and figured out everything and so on, but that's really not the way it worked.”

Source : Source: www.nobelprize.org
“The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.
“I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is premised on the guarantee of human dignity for all at all times and under all circumstances.”

Source : "Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man: A Philosophy of History and Civilisational Triumph". Book by Nayef Al-Rodhan, 2009.

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