Batys Glencastle Quotes & Sayings

For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial of rights. What is needed is a rights-based approach to development. Ensuring essential political, economic and social entitlements and human dignity for all people provides the rationale for policy. These are not a luxury affordable only to the rich and powerful but an indispensable component of national development efforts. — Kofi Annan

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics. — Voltaire

Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same. — Booker T. Washington

If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life. — Gough Whitlam

Touch not the fighting-dog without a glove.
Give me a fighting-dog and I come alive.
Fighting-dogs always meant more to Tom Mitchell than people. — John Duncan

Life is a cake and love is the icing on top of it. Without 'love', it becomes difficult to swallow 'life' ... — Mehek Bassi

Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans. My father's father was particularly bitter about this. He would not accept an invitation to a 'Negro' picnic. He would not segregate himself in any way. — W.E.B. Du Bois

As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of tyranny. The American attempt to combine domestic democracy with such tyrannical control over foreigners is hopelessly contradictory and hypocritical. A country can be democratic or it can be imperialistic, but it cannot be both. — Chalmers Johnson

What is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies? — Lynda Barry

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. — Ronald Reagan

Truth cannot be defeated. — Edwin Louis Cole

Shine as if you are the brightest star. — Debasish Mridha

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody. — Brian Austin Green