Margaret Atwood quote – If you refuse to own yourself
“You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you.” – Margaret Atwood
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Dalai Lama quote – no one truly benefits from causing harm to another sentient being
“Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think either that the other’s pain may somehow be a cause of happiness for themselves or that their own happiness is more important, regardless of what pain it may cause. But this is shortsighted. No one […]
Read morePat Schneider Quote – If I Were God
“If I were God, I would make a world just like this one, where everyone comes raw and naked and dependent into it; where everyone enters bloody between the legs or through the cut belly of a woman; where nothing is for certain and there is so much to learn. I would make the world unfair as this world is […]
Read moreGeorge Bernard Shaw Quote – It Is His Duty
“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.” – George Bernard Shaw
Read moreJodi Picoult Quote – Heroes
“Heroes didn’t leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn’t wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else’s. And maybe that one act could lead […]
Read morePope Francis Quote – The Human Person
“The human person, created in the image and likeness of God, cannot become a slave to things, to economic systems, to technological civilization, to consumerism, to easy success.” – Pope Francis
Read moreEdmund Burke Quote – Popular Error
“It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.” – Edmund Burke
Read moreBob Marley Quote – Greatness of Man
“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.” ― Bob Marley
Read moreMahatma Gandhi Quote – Human Need
There is enough in the world for human need, but not human greed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Read moreChris Burden Quote – In The Eye Of The Beholder
“‘Limits’ is a relative term. Like beauty, it is often in the eye of the beholder.” – Chris Burden
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