Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. – John Boyd Orr

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know thats not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. – Tahar Ben Jelloun