Demand Quote by Nelson Mandela

No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become distinguished from…

— Northrop Frye

Human beings are not property. On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women…

— Kofi Annan

We must practice revolutionary democracy in every aspect of our Party life. Every responsible member must have the courage of his responsibilities, exacting from…

— Amilcar Cabral

But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship - it's a revolutionary democracy.

— Hugo Chavez

Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the…

— Nelson Mandela

Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that…

— Nelson Mandela

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.

— Pablo Picasso

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

— Cyril Connolly

Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a…

— Gianni Vattimo

Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared…

— Isak Dinesen

Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity.

— Stephen Batchelor

When you think about what Homo sapiens are about, you almost feel that we are replacing ourselves. We won't be able to breathe and…

— Irvine Welsh