#de

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#conspiracy-theories #democracy #dictatorship #freedom #human-rights

niether i am greedy for my RESPECT nor i have dread of my fucking insult ↗

— sanjay wadhwa

#respect

If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#freedom

Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death. ↗

— Tadeusz Borowski

#death

That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song. ↗

— Margaret Whiting

#different #end #find #got #growing

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#definition #god #truth #atheist

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#strength

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us. ↗

— Christian Marotti

#richard-denney #storytelling #teen-fiction #teen

Returning my voice to a conversational level, I called back, “Nora, I’m not attempting to embarrass you or single you out. I know you’re capable. But stay behind Chas, okay? You die, you d i e permanently, and for various reasons that we’ve already gotten angsty about together, I don’t want that to happen.” “Okay, okay,” she sighed. “Angsty?” Chas asked. “Ooh! Later, details!” “Yes, later.” With that, I waved the team forward. ↗

— Lia Habel

#dystopian #fiction #lia-habel #paranormal #romance

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#inaction #just-do-it #timidity #wisdom #wisdom