quotes about Hungary

“When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!”

“It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.”

“Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.”

Source : "Philothea: A Grecian Romance". Book by Lydia Maria Child, 1836.

“I, serial number 30743, Major General Yitzhak Rabin, am a soldier in the army of peace.”

“All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.”

“Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool.”

“Self belief is just one of the reasons we're younger and looking better today. We're also better educated. We know more about the environment and how it impacts on us, we understand more about nutrition and diet, and how it can affect our health too. We're also aware that what we think can affect us and so we try to think positively.”

“Epidemics of "bad" voice can kill your reputation overnight.”

“One of my favorite fantasies is that next Sunday not one single woman, in any country of the world, will go to church. If women simply stop giving our time and energy to the institutions that oppress, they would have to cease to do so.”

“The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.”