Munirah Baptiste Quotes & Sayings

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not. — Bob Feller

My memory, sir, is like a garbage disposal. — Jorge Luis Borges

Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape. — Ray Stannard Baker

What I see now is that even with the Islamists, who have been portraying themselves as the alternative to corruption and dictatorship and in defence of more transparency, there is one respect in which they have now changed completely. Since the beginning of the 1920's, Islamism was very close in positioning in some respects to 'liberation theology'. But that is no longer the case. — Tariq Ramadan

Modernity starts with the state monopoly on violence, and ends with the state's monopoly on fiscal irresponsibility. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two other reasons. One is to construct an ideal goal, so that incremental changes can be judged by whether they move the institutional structure toward or away from that ideal. The other reason is very different. It is so that if a crisis requiring or facilitating radical change does arise, alternatives will be available that have been carefully developed and fully explored. — Milton Friedman

Pursuit of passion, dream of dreamers! — Lailah Gifty Akita