"When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored."

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Source : Wendell L. Willkie (1943). “Prefaces TO PEACE”

Wendell Willkie

#Freedom Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Society Quotes

“All you need is a bad angle and suddenly youre 30 pounds overweight.”
“Muirfield without a wind is like a lady undressed. No challenge.”
“You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.”
“To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where youâ€™re going or backward at where youâ€™ve been. When you do stop, thereâ€™s a sense of going nowhere. Thereâ€™s a sense of gap, which is a tremendous relief. You can simply breathe and be who you are.”
“It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was.”
“The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its heart as of stone... . Yet on arrest, in the name of these laws, we die like dogs, neither executioner nor victim making a sound. Because he has to gasp for air all his life, panting for breath is the man of today's only way out.”
“I'm a vegetarian. You're a what? I don't eat meat. How can you not eat meat? I just don't. He says he does not eat meat. What? No meat? No meat. Steak? No... Chickens! No... And what about the sausage? No, no sausage, no meat! He says he does not eat any meat. Not even sausage? I know! What is wrong with him? What is wrong with you? Nothing, I just don't eat meat!”
“The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.”

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