"Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one."

Society, Observation, Needs, Respect, Responsibility

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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

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"Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful " but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A woman is always buying something."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"An uncultured mind often gets attracted by the extreme."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

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"The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities " but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Every nation needs a crystal clear mirror to see its stupidities, to see its hypocrisies, to see its faults and its evils! No nation is saint! Every nation's history is full of primitiveness and barbarity, full of wars and murders! Let every nation sees its face very clearly! Let them face their faces so that in the future they may be something better!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"The black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated."

Darnell Lamont Walker, American Writer

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"Religion doesn't divide the society. The humans reading the wrong books to understand religion, do."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

Government

"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

People

"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."

Civilization

"When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty."

Politics

"We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state."

Philosophy

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."

Knowledge

"Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief."

Spiritual

"Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say."

Wisdom

"Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind."

Education

"Religion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hopefulness and loneliness of man."

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