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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. -Abraham Lincoln
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. — Dr. Seuss
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever. - Helena Bonham Carter
It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations. — Danny Boyle
In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
Some men see things as they are and say why—I dream things that never were and say why not. —George Bernard Shaw
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase of capitalism. It is totally inconsistent with democracy as well as with sustainability. What we have is capital working on a global scale, totally uprooted, with accountability nowhere, with responsibility nowhere, and with rights everywhere. This new capital, with absolute freedom and no accountability, is structurally anti-life, anti-freedom.
Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.
