THABO MBEKI. South African Politician
A GLOBAL HUMAN SOCIETY, CHARACTERIZED BY ISLANDS OF WEALTH, SURROUNDED BY A SEA OF POVERTY, IS UNSUSTAINABLE,
MANY of our own people here in South Africa do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask — when will we get a road to our village.
THERE must be public servants who are working regularly among the people.
We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of the savage principle of the survival of the fittest.
WHOEVER we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught by the fashion of cynicism and loss of faith in the capacity of the people, let us err today and say — nothing can stop us now!
PAUL McCARTNEY “All You Need is Love”
IN the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
SOMEWHERE down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
TAKE THESE BROKEN WINGS AND LEARN TO FLY.
IF SLAUGHTERHOUSES had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
IF you love your life, everybody will love you too.
We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
JOANNE LIPMAN. Editor
THERE IS NO HAPPINESS WITHOUT HARD WORK.
MUSIC may not make you a genius, or rich, or even a better person. but it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view –and most important, to take pleasure in listening.
HENRY GIROUX
THE NEW ILLITERACY is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.
ROGER EBERT 1942 FILM EXPERT
TO make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.
YOUR intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
I BELIEVE that empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.
EVERY great film should seem new every time you see it.
I THINK we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
I DO NOT FEAR DEATH. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.
DOGS remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled “Why my Human is A God.”
START. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about your hopes.
OF all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.
THAT”S what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.
DOGS notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they’re able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they’re praised,
I THINK most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.
PEACE TO THE WORLD