"Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that can form the basic constitution of a viable international organization."

-- Leon Bourgeois

#Organization Quotes #Constitution Quotes #States Quotes

“A person without regrets is a nincompoop.”
“No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.”

Source : Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.10, Souvenir Press
“People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes, but only by profound revolutions and bloody struggles; they have learned that the question is not that of a fraternal union of all European peoples under a single republican flag, but of an alliance of the revolutionary peoples against the counter-revolutionary peoples, an alliance which comes into being not on paper, but only on the battlefield.”
“Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.”
“I would just love to do something where I'd have to train and work really hard and do one of those types of action movies, which a lot of women are doing now”
“Women do not have to embrace principles of imperialism, corporatism and militarism in order to be a feminist. There is another feminist choice, which is consistent with the broader principles of feminism.”
“If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there's nothing lost.”
“...there is no safe level of exposure to ionizing radiation, and the search for quantifying such a safe level is in vain.”

Source : Rosalie Bertell (1985). “No immediate danger: prognosis for a radioactive earth”

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