Toynbees House Quotes & Sayings

Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that. — Larry Smith

You get yourself out there and you work hard and you hope that word of mouth kind of carries and one day somebody will actually step up to the plate and say "I believe that you can do this." — Charlize Theron

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone have been able to create or preserve it. It is the outcome of an objective relationship between the individual and the space he occupies, between the consumer and the resources at his disposal. — Claude Levi-Strauss

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others. — Julian Bond

More effectively than any of the other tales, 'The Emperor's New Clothes' established Andersen's reputation as a man who created stories for children - not just in the sense of target audience, but also as beneficiaries of something extraordinary. The lesson embedded in it is so transparent that its title circulates in the form of proverbial wisdom about social hypocrisy. But more importantly, 'The Emperor's New Clothes' romanticizes children by investing them with the courage to challenge authority and to speak truth to power. — Maria Tatar