Kiriaki Kourpouanidis Quotes & Sayings

We need to feel the cheer and inspiration of meeting each other, we need to gain the courage and fresh life that comes from the mingling of congenial souls, of those working for the same ends. — Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

The colonialist's existence is so closely aligned with that of the colonized that he will never be able to overcome the argument which states that misfortune is good for something. With all his power he must disown the colonized while their existence is indispensable to his own. Having chosen to maintain the colonial system, he must contribute more vigor to its defense than would have been needed to dissolve it completely. Having become aware of the unjust relationship which ties him to the colonized, he must continually attempt to absolve himself. He never forgets to make a public show of his own virtues, and will argue with vehemence to appear heroic and great. At the same time his privileges arise just as much from his glory as from degrading the colonized. — Albert Memmi

Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort that they could easily avoid, and the other half muttering meaningless mumbo jumbo in empty churches at all hours of the day and night. They deliberately shunned anything good - girls, sports, feasting and family life. — Ken Follett

By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified. — Gautama Buddha

Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all. — Kathleen Troia McFarland

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness. — Mahatma Gandhi

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male? — Samuel Johnson

Revolution was never sparked by political philosophy. It has ever been the price of bread that shakes the pillars of the world. Yet they lock up the thinkers and leave the bakers free. — Rod Duncan