#rita

The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#character #full #life #me #moment

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#answer #diversity #freedom #heritage #inspired

The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society. ↗

— Roy Hattersley

#britain #doctrine #free #free society #guide

The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future. ↗

— Aly Khan

#america #aspirations #council #doing #future

I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'. ↗

— Peter Porter

#called #country #distortion #established #heritage

I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to me. It's a common experience for the Jewish young. Should later generations of Germans be burdened with the guilt arising from the profound inhumanity of their ancestors? Revenge may be sweet, but guilt is non-transferable. Still, hatreds survive with the persistence of cockroaches. ↗

— Sid Fleischman

#holocaust #inheritance #experience

Biking and love do not make sense without your personal experience ↗

— Anatoliy Obraztsov

#spiritality #wisdom #experience

My dad was born poor, made a fortune during his life, and then died suddenly—murdered by his only son, leaving his vast estate to a daughter I didn’t know he had.
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#daughter #family #father #inherit #inheritance

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#morality #obsession #prudishness #puritanism #sexuality

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses. ↗

— George Orwell

#england #nobility #orwell #royalty #uk