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- Page 40
In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign.
Christina Engela
Nationalism leads to all sorts of nasty things (even Nazi things) like fascism and war.
Christina Engela
Peace with non-fundamentalists terrifies the fundamentalist because to them, being Christian doesn't mean just being 'good' - it means being 'better' than others. Being better that others means having to see them as enemies - and making war on them. The fundamentalist views not being allowed to make war on their enemies as oppression of their faith, or defeat.
Christina Engela
How very like humans to pervert a message of love and peace to make it into an ideology of war and oppression to serve their own ends.
Christina Engela
Ensuring that our home planet is healthy and life sustaining is an overwhelming priority that undercuts all other human activities. The ship must first float. Our failure to grasp these fundamental tenants of existence will be our undoing. And one thing is for certain. No calvary is going to come charging to our rescue. We are going to have to rescue ourselves or die trying. Workable solutions are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. The real issue is our elementary accord with Earth and the plant and animal kingdoms has to be revitalized and re-understood.The burning question is, How?
Lawrence Anthony
[The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.
Sir Laurens van der Post
[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.
Sir Laurens van der Post
War is a dumb game thought out by men when they become too old to play cowboys and crooks.
Irma Joubert
He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men to stay behind and keep gardening alive, or at least the idea of gardening; because once that cord was broken, the earth would grow hard and forget her children. That was why.
J.M. Coetzee
When people don't understand the meaning of freedom in their lives, they will continue to live as though they're still oppressed.
Gugu Mona
People should avoid hatred at all costs, because not only does it affect the haters health; it also prevents them from enjoying the goodness of love.
Gugu Mona
Never make a judgment on a one sided story because people may tell you what they want you to hear, rather than what you need to hear.
Gugu Mona
Do not distance yourself from the people who need you most today, because tomorrow you will need them the most.
Gift Gugu Mona
Any leadership that is observant and committed to its people, will always find better ways to solve problems.
Gift Gugu Mona
Do not distance yourself from people who need you most today, because tomorrow you will need them the most.
Gift Gugu Mona
Some people do everything, some do something, many do nothing - which is bad enough - but the worst of the lot are those who break down what others have built.
Christina Engela
Any religion which demands death for other people is itself worthy of nothing less than it expects for others. In fact, it is probably long overdue.
Christina Engela
Rejecting people for who and what they are will not make you a better, more 'righteous' or more 'moral' person - than the other person, or even in your own right - in fact, if that's why you're doing it, it is far more likely to do the opposite.
Christina Engela
The only way a society of diverse people can survive without tearing itself apart over differences in nature is by accepting that ALL people are different, and that no single one of us is more or less deserving of decent treatment, compassion, legal and ethical equality, justice, life, or love, than any other.
Christina Engela
isn't lying supposed to be a 'sin'? Or is it okay to lie when trying to make people you hate look bad?
Christina Engela
They set about making people so unhappy and isolated and when they crawl into a hole and pull it in after them, they have the nerve to call homosexuality a 'suicidal lifestyle'. And yet they do this - and deny that any gay or trans person could ever be a 'true' Christian. As if THEY are.
Christina Engela
Those who deny any group of people human rights are really denying the humanity of that group - and their own.
Christina Engela
It' is for objects, not people.
Christina Engela
The idea that all people can and should live together in peace is not really a new one - but yet in practice it is very young indeed.
Christina Engela
The truth of the world is that in every group you will find some good and some bad people - which is why i am keenly aware that no group is ALL bad, just as no group is ALL good.
Christina Engela
Some people don't like 'different', it makes them scaredOf people who aren't like them, I think that's weird.
Christina Engela
People wonder who is who,Everyone is different - even you!
Christina Engela
Some people think everyone should be the same as them:Look, dress, sound and act just like them.
Christina Engela
The most progressive approach to life is to discuss ideas than people.
Gift Gugu Mona
When you surround yourself with dramatic people, your life will be driven by drama instead of being driven by destiny.
Gugu Mona
People should avoid hatred at all costs, because not only does it affect the hater’s health; it also prevents them from enjoying the goodness of love.
Gift Gugu Mona
Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly and deceitful attack upon people’s humanity – but they can put out the correct, factual, scientifically and medically accurate information in an attempt to counter the ignorance and to restore the balance.
Christina Engela
The only problem that ever really seems to bother empire builders is bureaucracy. Before a new colony on the frontier could be founded, the Senate and Triumvirate would have to pass the plan. Factors influencing the High Lords decision would include, among others, the number of people needed to found the colony and whether this would result in any significant population shift. Another, more critical factor would be whether Tactical Defense could spare the ships or the manpower to patrol the area.
Christina Engela
Your assignment must at least better the lives of people around you and the world at large.
D.S Mashego
Although these negative statements that we speak over people’s lives are ‘simple English’, they tend to be sticky and their damage is huge. Sometimes, these negative words or statements can have lasting adverse effect on the life of an individual.
D.S Mashego
To remain far-sighted, you need to surround yourselfwith far-sighted visionaries. You need to surround yourself with people who think like you. You needto surround yourself with people who speak the same language as you. You need to surround yourself with people who fight and refuse to give up on theirdestiny. You need to surround yourself with people whose testimonies give you reasons to press on.
D.S Mashego
To remain far-sighted, you need to surround yourselfwith far-sighted visionaries. You need to surroundyourself with people who think like you. You needto surround yourself with people who speak the same language as you. You need to surround yourselfwith people who fight and refuse to give up on theirdestiny. You need to surround yourself with people whose testimonies give you reasons to press on.
D.S Mashego
Don't expect too much from people who don't even have respect for themselves.
Gift Gugu Mona
The reason why people do not have price tags is, because life is priceless.
Gift Gugu Mona
People who know their worth understand the power of their own words.
Gift Gugu Mona
The reason why we need love more than street lights is because love illuminates the world, no matter the time of day. Where there is no love, even with street lights on, the world would still be lost in the darkness of hatred.
Gift Gugu Mona
Rise of Science DenialismThe problem is, in a world where some people (even in the USA, where someone like Donald Trump was allowed to rise to the level of a serious presidential candidate in 2016) have descended to such levels of ignorance that science itself is dismissed by leaders, political and religious as ‘an agenda’, and frightening numbers of people cling to ignorance and superstition because it suits their conservative anti-human rights views and objectives.
Christina Engela
People will oppose your progress. They will remind you of your past failures, belittle you, etc. The only way to stand against such opposition and belittling is to knowthe reason for your existence.
D.S Mashego
It is the function of creative people to perceive relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expressions that seem utterly different, and to be able to Connect the seemingly Unconnected".
William Plomer
She had been trying hourly to ensure that this new friendship remained such, to be certain that it would not slip out of the careful grasp of her fingers and into the darker champers of her heart.
Shamim Sarif
My mom and dad refused to believe that people who had grown up together in peace and friendship, had gone to the same schools, spoken the same language, and listened to the same music, could overnight be blinded by ethnic hatred and start to brutally kill one another. They simply didn't accept as true that less than two years of a multiparty system and competition for power could poison people's brains so much.
Savo Heleta
They were your friends?""Yes, they were my friends.""And they will leave you to suffer alone?""Now I see it.""And until this, were they friends you could trust?""I could trust them.""I see what you mean. You mean they were the kind of friends that a good man could choose, upright, hard-working, obeying the law?Tell me, were they such friends?And now they leave you alone?Did you not see it before?""I saw it.
Alan Paton
Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.
C.J. Langenhoven
Sometimes the mind silence the heart, cause it is afraid of what it might say
Bonita Venter
Love is more beautiful when it's real.
Gift Gugu Mona
The truth about true love is that it is endless.
Gift Gugu Mona
Even to your old age and grey hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have loved you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you[.]
Tarryn Fisher
You keep me here. You can't live in a world where you don't know where and what I am doing. We inside each others souls.
Chimnese Davids
I think it's hard for you to fall in love because you like control, and you can't control what another person does or feels, so you keep all your cards.
Tarryn Fisher
Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words ‘impossible’ and ‘improbable’ are synonyms.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times.
J.M. Coetzee
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