All Quotes

"The purpose of history, as I see it, is to uncover the forces which move the pawns on the chess board of the world. This and only this is real history, and anything else, in the final analysis, is of no intrinsic value."

"Without a means of confronting the onrushing third world, white civilization is doomed. It can do nothing else but deteriorate to a third world level with all that implies: the final triumph of liberalism; political correctness; a garbage culture; poverty; the extermination of the middle class and then Marxism. It means Jewish political and cultural domination, including a political tyranny comparable to Stalinism."

"Wars and rumors of wars are extremely profitable for the real rulers of this country and the media that support them. Against all considerations of national interest and without a shred of constitutional authority, the Bush administration attacked Iraq, a highly civilized, independent, stable country with 6,000 years of proud history."

"Most Americans have never heard of Willis Carto. Although he has been for over fifty years an active leader in what is often called the "far right," he remains to this day a relatively obscure figure even among those who study American politics. Over the past several decades, he has raised millions of dollars for his causes, yet he has received very little national publicity and has been virtually ignored by the mainstream press. Despite this obscurity, Carto is undoubtedly the central figure in the post-World War II American far right. More than any other person, he has fostered continuity within this movement and has been involved in virtually all of its major projects."

"It’s about honoring the journey, the friendships, the music, and the quiet miracles that happen when people come together with purpose."

"Music has always been a way for me to express gratitude."

"When it’s shared with people you love — in a place that invites stillness and joy — that’s where the real magic happens."

"What made this album groundbreaking was its fusion of traditional and contemporary elements — ethnic instruments were masterfully incorporated, creating a unique Filipino sound."

"To record the patriotic song Ako Ay Pilipino, a powerful anthem that expresses the deep pride of being Filipino. The song resonated with people from all walks of life and, over time, became like a second national anthem, embraced by Filipinos regardless of political affiliation."

"I never liked the idea of joining singing contests."

"I believed that art should not be a competition. However, it was (singer-songwriter) Odette Quesada’s grandmother who persistently encouraged me to join. Eventually, I agreed — and the rest is history."

"One of the boldest and most meaningful milestones in my career (and) it was a decision that required my lifetime savings — earnings from my tours — but more than just a financial investment, it was an investment in the future of Filipino artists and live entertainment."

"I wanted to create a space that could serve as a home for our local performers, a theater, and live performances where artists could freely showcase their talents without the challenges of booking a hotel."

"It was both an honor and a privilege to be part of such a prestigious global event, representing the Philippines on an international stage."

"(It) made its way to the jazz charts, proving that Filipino artistry could hold its own alongside international acts."

"By the grace of God, I have been given the many opportunities to remain active in the industry for over 45 years."

"The present wave of immigrants and their children are rapidly assimilating into an ever-vibrant American mainstream culture, and at a pace greater than the Europeans who came during the previous large wave"

"Going back to the earliest years of the Republic, we find that Black Americans, while being exploited as slaves and workers, and while being shunned socially into rural and urban ghettos, have nonetheless been embraced culturally. Few other groups, with the possible exception of the Jews of Europe, have contributed more to the culture of the group that dominated and excluded them, than black Americans—in music, dance, theatre, literature, sports and more generally in the style and vibrancy of its dominant culture, America is indelibly blackish. Trying to imagine America without blacks, is like trying to imagine Lake Erie without oxygen."

"...It is truly amazing that, for all this progress black Americans remain today almost as socially segregated as they were in the late sixties; that for all this cultural and political progress, combined with striking changes in the racial attitudes of white Americans, black Americans are still twice as unemployed as white Americans, that they continue to earn 65% of the median income of white Americans, exactly the same proportion that they earned in 1970, that the typical white household has 16 times the wealth of a black one, that one in 3 black youth are certain to spend part of their lives in prison, that the police of this nation still enter and treat black neighborhoods as if they are an occupying army and still feel empowered to cut down our black youth with impunity."

"Pessimism is a self-fulfilling malady."

"Praised across the humanities as a Renaissance scholar, Patterson has written globally influential books on slavery and its opposite pole, freedom. His works are profoundly interdisciplinary, mining comparative histories and insisting on the complex significance of culture."

"...Despite the critical acclaim for his fiction, the young scholar cooled to writing additional novels after a visit to , the legendary Barbados-born writer and Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner. Patterson found Lamming living in a remote one-room apartment, a bed-sit, above a cottage in north London, and decided to stick with the regular paychecks of academia."

"That’s when I realized that the saying ‘No story is worth dying for.'"

"The only important thing is that the family can be together."

"Of course you really need that too, you need a partner you can tell everything in your life."

"Fondest memories of him, at work, he really put his whole heart into his work. One hundred percent."

"You have to be determined and dedicated to what you do, but always keep your feet on the ground."

"Always be grateful for whatever you have in life."

"When you love that person, it doesn't matter if you don't have sex,""

"Thomas Jefferson loathed Plato. In 1814, he wrote to John Adams that he had been reading the Republic and came away unimpressed: “Bringing Plato to the test of reason, take from him his sophisms, futilities, & incomprehensibilities, and what remains?” The only reason the Greek philosopher is so revered, Jefferson opined, is that “education is chiefly in the hands of persons who, from their profession, have an interest in the reputation and the dreams of Plato.” Even so, Jefferson would have been appalled by what happened last week at Texas A&M University. Days before the spring semester began, Martin Peterson, a philosophy professor, was ordered to remove Plato’s Symposium from the list of assigned readings for the class “Contemporary Moral Issues.” Peterson and Plato fell victim to a policy adopted by the university in the fall, which states that classes cannot “advocate race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity” without special approval. In his email response to his department chair, Inside Higher Ed reported, Peterson warned, “You are making Texas A&M famous—but not for the right reasons.” He was right. The case has attracted widespread outrage, including a protest from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. It’s hard to imagine a starker violation of academic freedom than forbidding students to read one of the most famous texts in all of Western philosophy. “Your decision to bar a philosophy professor from teaching Plato is unprecedented,” Peterson protested."

"But although this kind of censorship may be absurd and sinister, it is ironically fitting that Plato, of all philosophers, should be targeted by a regime worried about the effect of subversive ideas on tender minds. Almost 2,500 years ago, Plato’s teacher, Socrates, was sentenced to death by the city of Athens for exactly the same reason. “What do they say? Something of this sort: That Socrates is a doer of evil, and corrupter of the youth, and he does not believe in the gods of the state.” That is how the charges against him are described in the Apology, one of Plato’s early works, which reports or imagines the speech Socrates delivered in his defense at his trial. He warns his fellow citizens about “the evil name which you will get from the detractors of the city, who will say that you killed Socrates, a wise man.” The fate of Socrates convinced Plato that the conflict between philosophy and society was inevitable—especially in a democracy, where public opinion is sacred. In the parable of the cave, in the Republic, Plato compares human beings to cave dwellers who never see the sun, but perceive everything by shadowy firelight. Only the philosopher is able to escape the cave and see the way things really are. But when he returns to share what he’s discovered, and tries to get the others to leave the cave too, they laugh at him, or worse: “If they were somehow able to get their hands on and kill the man who attempts to release and lead up, wouldn’t they kill him?” Socrates asks. “No doubt about it,” replies his conversation partner, Glaucon (who in real life was Plato’s older brother). The Enlightenment began to challenge this pessimistic view in the 18th century. Jefferson was naturally hostile to Plato’s elitism: If all men are created equal, as the Declaration of Independence said, then everyone should be able to understand the truth, once the weight of authority and tradition is lifted from their shoulders."

"For most of history, the really dangerous philosophical ideas were those that touched on religion and political power. But the Platonic text censored at Texas A&M is not about these subjects, at least not directly. Rather, the Symposium deals with sex and love. Peterson intended to assign the passage in which Plato elaborates on a myth about the origin of erotic love, proposing that human beings were originally created as bodies joined together. Some of these pairs included two men, some two women, and some a man and a woman. But Zeus cut these doubles in half, and ever since our souls have longed to reunite with their lost mate. This explains why some people are what we now call homosexual: Their souls were originally part of a same-sex pair. Plato writes that if Hephaestus, the Greek god of the forge, appeared to a male couple and offered “to melt you into one and let you grow together, so that being two you shall become one, and while you live, live a common life as if you were a single man,” the lovers would certainly agree: “This meeting and melting into one another, this becoming one instead of two, was the very expression of his ancient need.” The Symposium’s sympathetic depiction of same-sex desire—at least between men; no female characters take part in the discussion—has long made Plato what we’d now call “queer-coded.” The Victorian writer John Addington Symonds spoke for many a gay reader when he described the thrill of reading Plato for the first time: “Here in the Phaedrus and the Symposium, I discovered the true Liber Amoris [Book of Love] at last, the revelation I had been waiting for.” Yet the Symposium insists that erotic desire is not really about sex. What we yearn for is not this or that beautiful body, but the beautiful itself, an ideal that can be found only in the spiritual realm. Plato suggests that this is especially true of love between men, which transcends biology because it doesn’t lead to procreation. Symonds said he found in the Symposium “the consecration of a long-cherished idealism.”"

"It’s highly unlikely that the Texas A&M regents read Plato before drafting their policy. If they had, they would have discovered that, far from “advocating gender ideology,” he challenges all of our 21st-century ways of thinking about sex and gender. He is neither “left” nor “right,” because he lived thousands of years before those labels were invented. That is one of the reasons studying Greek philosophy has never become obsolete: In every generation, it allows people to escape the binaries of their own time and think things through from the beginning. The belief that every student is capable of this kind of thinking, and deserves to experience it, was one of the noblest ideals of democratic education. Now that both democracy and education are under threat in the United States, philosophers may have to relearn the “prudence” that once seemed like a relic of history. Peterson is already employing a classic technique of esoteric writing: calling attention to what he is forced to omit. In his revised syllabus, when the students were originally supposed to read Plato, they will now be assigned a New York Times article about why they can’t."

"“When they teased me, I also teased them back,”"

"Even if you go back and forth, I don't know about others, but even if you go to America, Spain or Uruguay, you still can't take away your Visaya-ness, especially the tradition. It is important for me to bring this to a national (level) so that they would see and hear who we are, our traits."

"“I want the viewers to pick up the individuality of the Visayan celebrities and influencers that I interviewed. When you touch where they come from, one would see that they are normal people, they are humble and they deserve to be our idols,”"

"I will use this experience in the Philippines to improve my work and share what I learned from working here in Korea. If there’s a chance to work again in Korea, I want to work with you guys again. SarangeyoooOoOoOooO,"

"Forever Grateful for the hardwork we share to each other , I had so much Fun and so many lesson that learned that been learned????"

""If someone question why I have award, don't worry, I question too," she said in her speech, which was filled with quotes Filipino parents can relate with."

"Because.. I just receive award, all of my life, from my mother and father everytime they're angry to me."

"I'm very sorry to the Koreans I acted like this , I'm so overwhelmed to this kind of award."

"I am very strict. Not really too strict. But I am like a disciplinarian with my children and my nephews,"

"“That's when I really saw for myself, 'Oh, I could do hosting here!'”"

"That's why I always focus on myself because I know I won't hurt myself."

"“Just keep going. You'll get to where I am now. I just don't know if you'll like where I am now. Little Melai, keep it up and keep it down,” she laughed, with a mix of humor and honesty."

"“Enjoy your career. Work your career with a good heart,” as she aptly puts it."

"Attitude is not in the dialect, it's in the personality."

"In November 1969, Bengali versus non-Bengali riots broke out in Dhaka. The traditional trouble spots, Mirpur and Muhammadpur- predominantly Bihari areas-had been the scenes of police firing. Later, the army was called in and the police withdrawn. The army was made up entirely of West Pakistanis while the police was East Pakistani. This caused much resentment and distrust amongst the Bengali police hierarchy and bureaucracy, and made yet another dent in the facade of martial law. Curfew had to be imposed despite the martial law as local and non-local feelings were aroused."

"This riot was the tip of an iceberg, and the first manifestation of the latent antagonism between Bengalis and non-local Urdu-speaking people. This reached unprecedented heights during the 1971 War of Independence."

"খসরু, মন্টু ও সেলিমের ১৪ বছরের সশ্রম কারাদণ্ড হয়। শেখ মুজিব তাদের বাচানাের যথেষ্ট চেষ্টা করেছিলেন। তিনি এত দূর পর্যন্ত বলেছিলেন, যে তারিখে এ ঘটনা ঘটে সেই দিন অভিযুক্ত ব্যক্তিরা তাঁর সঙ্গে ছিলেন। এমনকি গভর্নর আহসানও তাদের সঙ্গে ছিলেন। তারা তখন বাঙালি-বিহারি দাঙ্গা উপদ্রুত ঢাকার মােহাম্মদপুর এলাকা সফর করছিলেন।"