Rick Kennedy quotes

“Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains”
-- Rick Kennedy

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“Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.”
-- Rick Kennedy

Source : Rick Kennedy (1998). “Little Adventures in Tokyo: 39 Thrills for the Urban Explorer”, p.10, Stone Bridge Press

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“Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.”

“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.”

“My world we humans we’re just pawns on an immortal chessboard.”

“We are either kings or pawns of men”

“Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.”

“By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.”

“Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.”

“We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.”

“If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.”

“Everywhere animals are in chains, but we image them as free.”

Source : Carol J. Adams (2015). “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing USA