Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
Rise above principal and do what's right.
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
I had been fighting since 1998 and knowing that this was going to be my last fight – I was not going to leave any questions or anything out there as far as, ‘Could I have done anything different?’ I was going to give this everything I had. My last memories of being a fighter were going to be good ones.
At the end of the day, you won't be happy until you love yourself.
As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.
I know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my faith in humanity, and our incredible ability to overcome just about anything.