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Voices of 'decency and liberty that reveal and enlighten'


Photo: Uche Okeke

"Here is the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the trouble makers, the round pegs in a single hole, the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. you can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them, because they change things. They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who will do it"-Apple computer advertising

"History is full of despots who never put their country before themselves with their ambitions laid with the blood of the young and innocent. We can simply judge better now with the tool of historical hindsight"- Simon Sebag Montefiore


"Opinions are like assholes everybody has one. But when it comes to facts that are distressing and difficult to report, leave it to the professionals please"-Dirty Harry (iNews)

"In every field of endeavour, there are people who could easily be successful but who spend their entire lives making one political mistake after another..., they become so absorbed in themselves that they ignore the very people they would most like to influence. Rather than recruit allies, they limit their horizons to missions they can accomplish alone. Instead of confronting or seducing threir adversaries, they avoid them. In making important deals, they become obessed with intangibles and give aware the store. They become crippled by handicaps when they could be exploiting them"- Chris Matthews(The Hardball)

"It goes against human nature, to stand up of your own free will and volunteer information that is bound to cause nothing but trouble"-Jody Powell

"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we posses, but we excel at those which also make use of our defects"-Alexis de Tocqueville, the great French chronicler of American democracy.

"It's always better to be the bearer of your own bad news"-Ronald Reagan.

"In a diverse society, the strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression, it is more speech- the voices of tolerance that rally against bigotory and blasphemy and lift up the values of understanding and mutual respect"-Barack Obama,.

"No one is born a writer, you are shaped to become one by your life experiences and your overall ambitions"-Max Feldman

"The internet does afford new possibilities for individuals to broadcast, connect and organise. Most of us can now become authors, joutnalists and publishers. At relatively small expense we can broadcast ourselves in words, images or sounds that are theoretically accessible to billions of other human beings"-Timothy Carton Ash.

"Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave"-Brancusi

"More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than from the perfection of a plan to violently execute"-Habert Humphrey.

"The ideas I stand for are not mine.I borrowed them from socrates. I swiped them from chesterfield. I stole them from jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?-Dale carnegie

"The merciless court of social media-its bench always stuffed with a billion judges-reaches a swift verdict and rarely reverses its decision"-Matthew d'Ancona

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