Dom Helder Camara Quotes

#1. Dom Helder Camara, a twentieth-century bishop in Brazil, said, When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a Communist.

Shane Claiborne

#2. Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#3. We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.

David Levithan

#4. She--the unnamed lady--simply drew his hands to the Paleolithic places men always have grown tumid from feeling, like the outward cradle of the hips within which a fetus will reside and her breasts that will nourish it, once born.

Edward Hoagland

#5. To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

#6. My box bedroom can only fit a bed and a wardrobe but it was my whole world. My only personal space to think and dream, to cry and laugh and wait until I became old enough to do all the things I wasn't allowed to do.

Cecelia Ahern

#7. It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.

David Graeber

#8. Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

Will C. Barnes

#9. The happiest youth, viewing his progress through,
What perils past, what crosses to ensue,
Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.

William Shakespeare

#10. Coca-Cola is the only business in the world where no matter which country or town or village you are in, if someone asks what do you do, and you say you work for Coca-Cola, you never have to answer the question, 'What is that?'

Muhtar Kent

#11. If I were to leave and raise a venture fund, I would have to find 10 or 100 LPs. They would all give me a bunch of money, and I would take a percentage of that to pay myself. They would expect me to invest that over the next three years, and they want that money back in seven or eight years.

Bill Maris

#12. One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the job over to the United Nations.

Timothy Noah

#13. The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

Alfred North Whitehead

#14. Always fight the horse, not the rider.

Bernard Cornwell

#15. We fly forgotten as a dream, certainly, leaving the forgetful world behind us to trample and mar and misplace everything we have ever cared for. That is just the way of it, and it is remarkable.

Marilynne Robinson