Hosletoppen Quotes & Sayings

Until the day I die, I never want to be separated from my dogi; I never want to cease my training efforts in the dojo. — Mas Oyama

Certainly, when it comes to my profession as a journalist, that allows the government to trace what you're reporting, who you're talking to, and where you've been. So no matter whether or not I have a commitment to protect my sources, the government may still have information that might allow them to identify whom I'm talking to. — Laura Poitras

Do we soon forget the things we cannot see? — Tori Amos

I will try to be non-violent
one more day
this morning, waking the world away
in the violent day. — Muriel Rukeyser

If you think that it would be impossible to improve upon the Ten Commandments as a statement of morality, you really owe it to yourself to read some other scriptures. Once again, we need look no further than the Jains: Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: 'Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.' Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept. Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a theologically defensible reading of the Bible. — Sam Harris

If love be good, from whence cometh my woe? — Geoffrey Chaucer

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. — Thomas Jefferson

The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless ... Islam was as guilty as all the rest. — John Henrik Clarke