Quebrantados Quotes

#1. To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

Daniel Barenboim

#2. Everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#3. To have divine favor on your life means you'll attract extraordinary opposition

Bill Johnson

#4. Some would rather fall into the sleep of death than wake up to the truth of life

Dean Cavanagh

#5. It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

Abraham Lincoln

#6. In the U.S. Constitution there was a category of creatures called three-fifth humans - the enslaved population. They weren't considered persons. And in fact women were barely considered persons, so they didn't have rights.

Noam Chomsky

#7. You look at war as something that is putting your best friend in jeopardy. You are responsible for the person in front of you and the person behind you, and the person to the left of you and the person to the right of you.

Steven Spielberg

#8. As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

Henry Ward Beecher

#9. To be a leader means, especially, having the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those who permit leaders to lead.

Max De Pree

#10. The reverse is a system in which you basically let people who were leaders in one way or another - people sometimes decried as party bosses, people who are part of special interests make the decision. And I think that's a worse system than the one we have.

Geoffrey Cowan