"To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Men Quotes #Rights Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.”

Source : "Photo". Book by Graphis Incorporated, 2005.
“Funny thing, every time an angel appeared to someone in the Bible, the first thing he'd say was, "Fear not."... I guess they were pretty spectacular.”

Source : Gilbert Morris (2005). “The Angel of Bastogne”, p.30, B&H Publishing Group
“One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.”
“My parents preached so much about Christianity and my mother thinks Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to the world - which he is - and God found a way of making examples for me. Like, just growing up, bullets would hit my partner but not me and I'd be right there. Or my Dad had a thing where he would make me play for the sorry team during football and make me go up against all my friends. It built a certain kind of character and a humble factor into me because I knew I had to work for it. And then to be able to beat them or be just as successful at so many things.”
“Stability is not the way of the world.”
“Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.”

Source : "Fictional character: Brandon Shaw". "Rope", 1948.
“That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems. The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated. It's financial of course, but it's also the lifestyle choices. The more money people have the further away from each other they often want to be. So while I loved not being hungry and having new gear, etc. I missed the sounds of my neighbors and the kind of generosity people who are struggling together often show.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“the tormented world cries out for internationhood, for co-existence in a harmony of diversity and mutual aid, for an end to self-segregation along secondary or superficial or downright imbecilic lines.”

Source : Clara Fraser (1998). “Revolution, She Wrote”, p.138, Red Letter Press

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