John Shattuck quotes

“Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.”
-- John Shattuck

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“It is especially imperative for Congress to exercise careful judgment in this area, because of the difficulty under existing laws, in obtaining judicial review of Postal Service abuses. ...We strongly oppose the legislation's infringement of rights guaranteed under the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution.”
-- John Shattuck

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“In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century's wars combined.”
-- John Shattuck

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“Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.”

“So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education”

“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.”

“Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.”

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

“God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.”

“Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.”

Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press

“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”

“Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.”

“Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.”