"He who honestly instructs reverences God."

-- Nazr Mohammed

#Teaching Quotes #Reverence Quotes #Honestly Quotes

“Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the ***** are us.”
“If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.”
“The surest way to lose sight of who you are is to constantly compare yourself to others.”
“The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action”
“One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob ...”

Source : Mona Van Duyn (1990). “Near changes: poems”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
“I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.”
“The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.”

Source : C. J. Sansom (2004). “Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery”, p.132, Penguin
“Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.”

Source : Speech at the UN's World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2001.

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