Wathint Abafazi Quotes

#1. Nelson Mandela was in jail when I was really young, and Winnie Mandela was one of the biggest faces of the movement. In South Africa we have a common phrase - it's like a chant in the street and at rallies: "Wathint' abafazi, wathint' imbokodo." Which means, "You strike a woman, you strike a rock."

Trevor Noah

#2. I want to be bullied.
But in again and you'll pay."
"She ... wants to be bullied ... ?

Yuna Kagesaki

#3. The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history.

Bob Crow

#4. Almost all men are infected with the disease of desiring to obtain useless knowledge,

Tony Reinke

#5. The more successful you are, the more mistakes you will make. People who don't do anything, don't make mistakes.

Robert Anthony

#6. Every system of control depends for its survival on the tangible and intangible benefits that are provided to those who are responsible for the system's maintenance and administration.

Michelle Alexander

#7. I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

Coco Lee

#8. I have this reputation of not wanting to talk to the media, which isn't true. What I don't like-what a lot of us don't understand-is how we can say one thing and it turns up in print as something else.

Vijay Singh

#9. I love the grime, the real-life feel of things, the mix of dollar stores and libraries, high school students and prostitutes, little kids and dealers. What I like most about my Parkdale neighbourhood is that I can disappear.

Danila Botha

#10. What's blocking action on climate change is what's blocking action on all the other issues that matter: it would cut into profits. Never mind the deep future, not when what's at stake is quarterly earnings.

Rebecca Solnit

#11. I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.

Katharine Hepburn

#12. Sleep and death, two twins of winged race,
Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

Alexander Pope

#13. I guess I'm thinking of myself here. I am tired. I am the one who asks, is death only the frozen image we have of the animal's body?...Maybe roadkills are more than they seem. Messages...

Jennifer Lynch