"For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there."

-- Miriam Makeba

#Fighting Quotes #Giving Quotes #Arms Quotes

“Accountability only works if you want it to.”

Source : Dillon Burroughs (2011). “Undefending Christianity: Embracing Truth Without Having All the Answers”, p.5, Harvest House Publishers
“I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] never was called because she probably didn't know an awful lot. The whole burden of the criticism of her on the subject of Communism is naivetÃ©, not participation. And again, being a public figure and our representative at the UN, there was nothing Communist about her, certainly.”
“One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go look at the architecture. And you can see how many houses were built around 1977, the year where everyone said, "Let's put in these aluminum windows instead of beautiful hand-made wood ones."”
“I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.”

Source : "Unilever's Paul Polman: challenging the corporate status quo" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2012.
“Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.”

Source : FaceBook post by Paula Abdul from Mar 25, 2012
“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
“John WayneÂ represents more force, more power, than anybody else on the screen.”
“If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.â€™Â ”

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