"After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again. Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood. The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility."

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Source : "Holocaust Hero Turns 97" by Jim Sciutto, abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2007.

Irena Sendler

#Religious Quotes #War Quotes #Humility Quotes

“People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.”
“I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.”

Source : "Vanessa Laker Meets Taio Cruz: The Interview". Interview with Vanessa Laker, vanlaker.wordpress.com. September 11, 2010.
“I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.”
“One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep arms, and by substituting a regular army in the stead of a resort to the militia. The friends of a free government cannot be too watchful, to overcome the dangerous tendency of the public mind to sacrifice, for the sake of mere private convenience, this powerful check upon the designs of ambitious men..”
“All I want to do is make people beautiful.”
“The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want to be able to verbalize them.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Theres some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.”

Source : "Don Novello's a man of many words, whether he's Father Guido Sarducci, scribbler Lazlo Toth, or even a political candidate" by Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. September 18, 2003.
“True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.”

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