"When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for eighteen centuries, by the pure self-evidence of His life and doctrine."

-- Horace Bushnell

#Lonely Quotes #Plato Quotes #New Beginnings Quotes

“We've reached the point where the demand for rules is about to replace the demand for chaos.”
“Being fearless doesn't mean having an absence of fear. It means you press on in spite of fear.”
“Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience.”
“There's some sort of exchange that goes on between human beings that is one of the highest things we do.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I think, for most of us is that once you get to a certain place in your career you're not having to elbow and knock people around and audition for parts.”
“It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.”
“I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reactionary- vested-interest-power. But then, I have great difficulty examining what men in general could possibly do about all this. In addition to doing the shitwork that women have been doing for generations, possibly not exist? No, I really don't mean that. Yes, I really do.”

Source : Robin Morgan (1970). “Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement”, Vintage
“We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.”

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