“Confession time. What really keeps me up at night. Apathy of the human condition. Abuse of females. Yemen. The Rohingya. Syria. Syrians. Mugabe’s successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa. Torture. Abject cruelty. You?”— Kathy Griffin, twitter.com
“Strong women make strong societies. Nothing matters more to our future than the well being of women and children.”— Melinda Gates, gatesfoundation.org
“When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.”— Melinda Gates, fortune.com
“The field of calm and free discussion in our country is open, and will always be so, but never has been and never can be traversed for good in a spirit of sectionalism and uncharitabilities.”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“What becomes of the noblest field ever opened for the advancement of our race in religion, in government, in the arts, and in all that dignifies and adorns mankind?”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“We mustn't fear to adopt the advanced management methods applied in capitalist countries (...) The very essence of socialism is the liberation and development of the productive systems (...) Socialism and market economy are not incompatible (...) We should be concerned about right-wing deviations, b…”— Deng Xiaoping, en.wikiquote.org
“A basic contradiction between socialism and the market economy does not exist.”— Deng Xiaoping, en.wikiquote.org
“Let some people get rich first, and gradually all the people should get rich together.”— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com
“It was Michael Jackson that brought blacks and whites and Asians and Latinos together. It was Michael Jackson that made us sing we 'are the world,' and feed the hungry.”— Al Sharpton, youtube.com
“Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“Hope and optimism are irrepressible but there is a deep underlying premonition that the opposition to change is likely to be vicious. Often the anxious question is asked: will such an oppressive regime really give us democracy? And the answer has to be: democracy, like liberty, justice and other soc…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“While a private individual may be bound only by the formal vows that he makes, those who govern should be wholly bound by the truth in thought, word and deed.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“You know, we're living in a society! We're supposed to act in a civilized way.”— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.”— Pierre Trudeau, en.wikiquote.org
“No moral, no message, no prophetic tract, just a simple statement of fact: for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.”— Rod Serling, en.wikipedia.org
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”— Albert Camus, goodreads.com