Chinweizu Ibekwe Quotes

#1. Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

Confucius

#2. I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleagues, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed,

William Rehnquist

#3. Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.

Aristotle.

#4. What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.

Chinweizu Ibekwe

#5. A free society acknowledges that authority over education begins with the family. I am not saying that a free society grants that authority. I do not believe that such authority is delegated by society.

Ron Paul

#6. Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.

Homer

#7. It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.

Paulo Freire

#8. I hope you don't mind tea in mugs,' she said, coming in with a try. 'I told you I was a slut.

Barbara Pym

#9. I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

Oliver Sacks

#10. Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

Clement Mok

#11. Sixty-five months into Bush's presidency, conservatives feel betrayed The main cause of conservatives' anger with Bush is this: He talked like a conservative to win our votes but never governed like a conservative.

Richard Viguerie

#12. The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.

Criss Jami

#13. The only thing that mattered to me, was the fact that I mattered to you.

Timothy Joshua

#14. Happiness is gained by complying with the duties of whatever condition of life one is in, and you must constrain yourself to rise to that exalted station in which destiny has placed you.

Giacomo Casanova