"It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges."

-- Abbe Pierre

#War Quotes #Technology Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“Heâ€™s worth fighting for, but I wonâ€™t change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.”
“I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.”
“Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.”

Source : "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.
“Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation.”

Source : "Why willpower matters – and how to get it" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2012.
“Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so as to make them as simple as possible. Times change, the world changes, and obviously the martial arts must change too. The karate that high school students practice today is not the same karate that was practiced even as recently as ten years ago [this book was written in 1956], and it is a long way indeed from the karate I learned when I was a child in Okinawa.”
“If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client.”
“Laws never protect anyone, despite claiming to be all about protecting the public. Each legal restriction only strengthens the power of mafia and crime organising who step in to help people do what the law says they can't do, in every country.”
“Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?”

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