"'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."

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Source : In a statement on the 180th anniversary of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, written by Thomas Jefferson, as quoted in Quote, May 20, 1956.

Dag Hammarskjold

#Fear Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Rights Quotes

“Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.”
“I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail; as grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace will keep me believing to the end. Faith, both in its origin and continuance, is a gift of grace (Phil 1:29).”

Source : J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.136, InterVarsity Press
“I forget how good I've got it sometimes, how lucky I am just to be alive. And I pass good prayer to the man upstairs just to thank him like I should. Yeah you know, I get it... I've got it good.”
“Youths are passed through schools that donâ€™t teach, then forced to search for jobs that donâ€™t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.”
“He wanted to impart some of the truths Bruce Denton had taught him, that you dont' become a runner by winning a morning workout. The only true way is to marshal the ferocity of your ambition over the course of many days, weeks, months, and (if you could finally come to accept it) years. The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials. How could he make them understand?”
“You must not only focus on the consumer, but also on what it does to you internally - getting people aligned to the strategic mission of the company - what it does to the suppliers, governments, all your stakeholders.”

Source : Source: www.formula1.com
“We are not going to finance elections when we need to fight to win back occupied territory.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.”

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