"A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

#People Quotes #Ethics Quotes #Social Quotes

“It's nice to be taken seriously.”

Source : "Festival preview: A conversation with activist Bruce Cockburn". Interview with Fish Griwkowsky, www.brucecockburn.org. August 7, 2013.
“Everybody believes in psychiatry it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.”
“After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.”
“If you have a story of grace, then you have a story of grace to tell.”
“I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.”
“Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.”
“Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.”
“I saw an awful lot of actresses, and some of them, you thought should be hospitalized. [They] should certainly eat a hamburger, for godsake.”

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