All Quotes

"(To David) There is no common bread on hand; but there is holy bread, if the young men have at least kept themselves from women."

"The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, there it is, wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it. For there is no other except that one here."

"(To Saul) So Ahimelech answered the king and said, “And who among all your servants is as faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, who goes at your bidding, and is honorable in your house? Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? Far be it from me! Let not the king impute anything to his servant, or to any in the house of my father. For your servant knew nothing of all this, little or much.”"

"(About Saul) Also Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing infants, oxen and donkeys and sheep—with the edge of the sword."

"And to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields, for you are deserving of death; but I will not put you to death at this time, because you carried the ark of the Lord God before my father David, and because you were afflicted every time my father was afflicted.” So Solomon removed Abiathar from being priest to the Lord, that he might fulfill the word of the Lord which He spoke concerning the house of Eli at Shiloh."

"What the Roman Empire is to European history, the Mongol Empire is to Asian history."

"What seems to destroy world orders (at least in history) is not great power rivalry, but structural pressures that fray connective tissues."

"If you were living in the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, or sixteenth century, you would not think Europe was the center of the world, you would think “Asia” (whatever you called it) was the center of the world"

"Even more so than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine there are major structural trends that are threatening to change the way we experience politics: climate change, developments in technology such as AI or shifts in how we do finance such as bitcoin and other similar technologies."

"When a person of color denounces a racist act or statement (and all the violence it entails), white people instinctively deny, minimize, or worse, play the victim, claiming they have been deeply hurt."

"In the white supremacist hierarchy, Black people are seen as other, weak, and equated with femininity. Inevitably, racialized men acquire the status of a gender through this otherness. This intersection of oppressions creates a unique situation that makes them direct targets of white supremacy and repressive violence."

"It is indeed easier to cry out against institutional racism, which largely absolves the individuals who perpetuate it of responsibility, than to question the very root of the institutionalization of this racism."

"Vicarious racism is the act of indirectly experiencing discrimination and oppression."

"Black in a white reality," Douce Dibondo sharpens her angry and militant pen as if to exorcise the world."

"We can't look back nostalgically as some are wont to do, to failed remedies of the past. We must keep up, keep going, keep progressing."

"Government programmes are making a positive difference, not a negative one. We must ask the right questions and expect answers."

"And it came to pass on the way, at the encampment, that the Lord met him and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast it at Moses’ feet, and said, “Surely you are a husband of blood to me!” So He let him go. Then she said, “You are a husband of blood!”—because of the circumcision."

"As a deer longs for running streams, / so my soul longs for you, O God."

"Why are you so disheartened, O my soul? / Why do you sigh within me? / Place your hope in God, / for I will once again praise him, / my Savior and my God."

"The depths of the sea resound / in the roar of your waterfalls; / all your waves and your breakers / sweep over me. / During the day the Lord grants his kindness, / and at night his praise is with me, / a prayer to the living God."

"For your sake we are put to death all day long; / we are treated like sheep destined to be slaughtered. / Awake, O Lord. Why do you sleep? / Rise up, and do not abandon us forever."

"God is our refuge and our strength, / a well-proved help in times of trouble."

"Come and behold the works of the Lord, / the astonishing deeds he has wrought on the earth. / He puts an end to wars all over the earth; / he breaks the bow and snaps the spear, / and he burns the shields with flames."

"Just as the sparrow searches for a home / and the swallow builds a nest for herself / where she may place her young, / so do I seek your altars, / O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. / Blessed are those who dwell in your house; / they offer continuous praise to you. Selah"

"Kindness and faithfulness will meet; / righteousness and peace will embrace. / Faithfulness will spring forth from the earth, / and righteousness will look down from heaven."

"In Africa, the majority of leaders are selfish. There are too few politicians who think about others."

"Dear African leaders, West Africa is on the brink of total collapse. [...] Your silence is worrying. The silence of the African Union is worrying. Wake up, defend Africans."

"Outsiders conspired against him / and envied him in the wilderness, / Dathan and Abiram and their followers / and the company of Korah, in wrath and anger. / The Lord saw it and was not pleased, / and in the heat of his anger they were destroyed; / he performed wonders against them / to consume them in flaming fire."

"They were jealous of Moses in the camp / and of Aaron, the holy one of the Lord. / The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan / and covered the faction of Abiram."

"Remember today that it was not your children (who have not known or seen the discipline of the Lord your God), but it is you who must acknowledge his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm, his signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to all his land; what he did to the Egyptian army, to their horses and chariots, how he made the water of the Red Sea[a] flow over them as they pursued you, so that the Lord has destroyed them to this day; what he did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place; and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab son of Reuben, how in the midst of all Israel the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, along with their households, their tents, and every living being in their company; for it is your own eyes that have seen every great deed that the Lord did."

"Now Korah son of Izhar son of Kohath son of Levi, along with Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth son[a] of Reuben, took two hundred fifty Israelite men, leaders of the congregation, chosen from the assembly, well-known men, and they confronted Moses. They assembled against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! All the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. So why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?”"

"Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come! Is it too little that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also lord it over us? It is clear you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Would you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come!”"

"So Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram; the elders of Israel followed him. He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Turn away from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs, or you will be swept away for all their sins.” So they got away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the entrances of their tents, together with their wives, their children, and their little ones. [...] Moses said: [...] But if the Lord creates something new and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up, with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.”"

"The fight for the protection of women's rights must include men. Men must understand that without their support, we cannot win anything in this battle to promote women's rights."

"The fight to promote women's rights must be ongoing."

"Women are agents of development"

"I was looking for something new, it's already been seen, already heard."

"Most New Zealanders are colourful and determined people, ambitious, forward looking, energetic and productive, caring and compassionate."

"Congolese women are completely absent from decision-making bodies."

"The Government knows that New Zealanders need a sense of certainty and security about their publicly funded health services. We all need to know that publicly funded services will be there when we need them."

"We have a record. We intend to deliver."

"Let this year be one where parties say what they stand for, not against. Let's get rid of the whingeing and weak criticism which occurs for the sake of it."

"The way to solve it is not necessarily becoming more liberal but rather trying to find ways that both educate, treat people who are clearly ill and deny access where that's possible."

"I don't think that we should try and beat history."

"This is an extraordinary set of circumstances that currently prevail. I think we must wait and see what occurs."

"We must assert ourselves and impose our leadership."

"You cannot empower someone if they have not internalized what you have shared with them."

"Patrice Emery Lumumba remains a hero without a grave, Regarding her father, who was assassinated in 1961."

"Sixty years after the unspeakable assassination, we believe that the time for relentless punishment of Lumumba's remains has passed, and that the hour of justice has arrived."

"There are women who show that beyond formal positions, there are strong voices that defend equality, dignity, justice, peace and parity."