"Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born."

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Source : Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

Doris Lessing

#Real Quotes #People Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.”
“If we didn't fear the truths we didn't hear, we'd lose the need to fear the ones we did.”
“I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.”

Source : "Q&A – Dallas Roberts (Miles Fiedler)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. August 2010.
“I looked massive next to Ryan Seacrest! But I was lucky that I've never had anyone say, 'Jordin, you need to lose weight.'”
“I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.”
“My taste tends to skew a little bit towards the more feminine. Monique Lhuillier, Oscar de la Renta. Some of his wedding dresses in particular have been spectacular.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“Every generation has underestimated the potential for finding new ideas . . . Possibilities do not add up. They multiply.”
“We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one anotherâ€™s error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.”

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