quotes about Rectitude

“No yesterdays on the road.”

“I felt there needed to be a show for teenagers that didn't make them feel judged. 'Skins' never tried to preach. It allowed young people to make their own decisions about what to do and whether it was right or wrong. Young people really respond to that, and that's what sets 'Skins' apart.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (1991). “Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook”, Beacon Press (MA)

“Like readily consorts with like.”

“Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.”

“I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.”

Source : Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

“Free Yourself helps you learn to tenderly hold your heart with your own loving hands.”

“The saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.”

Source : "Fingers Pointing Towards the Moon: Reflections of a Pilgrim on the Way". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1958.

“Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.”

“Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past...Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.”