“None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.” FirstsKindEnoughLyingSongTurnsNationsLove IsSecretCryIndiaSingersFirst Love Book:Shantaram: A Novel Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.” MenHumansMadeSelfFactsProblemHandsEyeLawLife IsSongIndividualNationsSocialPathFeetOceanUglySolveRevengeTeethHuman LifeRisingSpiteTidesPursuedRisenRecurringSocial ProblemsRetaliationWreckage Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.” IfsWantLooksSongNationsPayAttentionPoliticianDanceFolksFolk Songs Author:Agnes de Mille
“The same people in the Congress who are busy kicking holes in the social safety net are also those who would sell off the nation's forests for a song, give away its national parks, and trash its wilderness preserves; there is a connection between the two impulses.” PeopleGivingTwoSongNationsSocialConnectionsSafetySellsBusyCongressHolesForestsImpulsePreservesParksWildernessTrashKickingNational ParksSafety Net Book:Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild Source: Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild
“We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.” HumansWould BeLawSongNationsCommonHuman NatureConscienceShiningCodeAbstractStatuesRailroads Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson