Flamands St Quotes & Sayings

The promotion of human rights remains the most effective strategy for eliminating inequalities between countries and social groups, and for increasing security. — Pope Benedict XVI

Food is like war. You have to experience it for yourself. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

I think a good book is a good book forever.
I don't think they get less good because times change. — Megan Whalen Turner

The highest form of morality is not to feel at home in ones own home. Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed too immutable. I told my students I wanted them in their readings to consider in what ways these works unsettled them, made them a little uneasy, made them look around and consider the world, like Alice in Wonderland, through different eyes. — Azar Nafisi

Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. — Hannah Arendt

She caught the Magic 8 Ball, — Rick Riordan

Paul Revere earned his living as a silversmith. But what do we remember him for? His volunteer work. All activism is volunteering in that it's done above and beyond earning a living and deals with what people really care passionately about. Remember, no one gets paid to rebel. All revolutions start with volunteers. — Susan J. Ellis

In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead — Isaac Kashdan

Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won. — William H. Hastie