Tarrafal Em Quotes

#1. Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.

Lysander Spooner

#2. You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality.

Amy Irving

#3. The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Herbert Spencer

#4. If moral values amount to nothing but subjective phenomena of the human mind without independent meaning and existence - a position held by a variety of naturalist, positivist, and pragmatist philosophers - one never can be found lacking in light of an objective standard of moral values.

Reinhard Hutter

#5. I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#6. Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.

Peter Drucker

#7. Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

Philip Kitcher

#8. The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own.

Paul Davies

#9. Eeyore, the old grey donkey, stood by the side of the stream and looked at himself in the water. "Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic."

A.A. Milne

#10. The real threat to reading isn't the time we spend hanging out, it's the time we spend online.

Lorin Stein

#11. They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf