“One of the greatest challenge facing young people today, is the
large scale availability of half truth’s and manipulated facts”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to look
vertically upwards”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“Drug cartels have taken the driver’s seat, training our young
men and women on how best to self destruct, while the larger
community watches on helplessly as these bands of renegades lead
our people towards the path of self annihilation”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“I am constantly reminded that we are a products of the choices we make”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“Raped at age nine by a relative and pregnant at 14 Oprah Winfrey,
like many others have experienced the wickedness and brutality of
our society. Sadly, it’s an environment where blood lines no longer
hold.”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“The lack of stringent laws and the inefficient prosecution of
perpetrators have made it increasingly difficult for victims and their
families to get the justice they deserve.”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“A planet without AIDS is possible, but to create that planet we must
do away with the vestiges of the old planet where testing positive to
the HIV virus effectively relegates an individual to the subclass of
Human society”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“A complex world of intrigues and power play among couples has
combined to deny young people the love and attention they truly
deserve, more and more teenagers are leaving home to peer up with
bad influence which eventually lands them in jail for the lucky ones
and six feet under for the not so lucky.”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“Increasingly, the girl child is becoming an endangered specie as
pedophiles’ continue to roam free in our societies terrorizing
the lives of our children and stripping them of all the joy and
excitement that comes with childhood.”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“Our society has made it extremely difficult for those living
with the virus to declare their status”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“The stigmatization and the excruciating pains of social alienation
have compelled most victims to conceal their status while the
malevolent ones continue to distribute the virus free of charge to
unsuspecting men and women”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“So many interests compete for our young people, from drug barons
to sex traffickers who are constantly looking for ways to revive their ageing workforce”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“Telling yourself a lie is like putting a shot gun to your head and pulling the trigger, in both ways you end up destroying yourself”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“As the world confronts the challenges of globalisation, the
entertainment Industry and a web saturated with explicit sexual
content, is increasingly making it difficult for young people to make
informed decisions about sex”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“, I have experienced firsthand how easy it is for a
ten year old to obtain marijuana for next to nothing, this trend
seems to have been taken to a new dimension with the abuse of
pharmaceutical products especially prescription medicines in
schools and communities, increasing the number of mentally
and emotionally challenged men and women on our streets and
diverting young people from classrooms and lecture halls to prisons
and drug rehabilitation centers.”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“The tenure of human positions, no matter how highly exalted will eventually come to an end. Only Gods tenure is eternal”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“In their quest to hit cloud Nine, our young men and women in
their prime are gradually finding themselves on ground Zero,
emotionally battered, academically bankrupt and medically
paralyzed.”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“HIV is free, why pay for it”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“The Media and the internet have taken up the responsibility of molding the young ones amongst us, leaving us to pursue
the careers we treasure.”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then we
must be willing to extricate them at whatever cost from the clutches
of those who seek to exploit their weaknesses”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“.Ensuring that young people get the right information that will enable them make the right choices is a responsibility all citizens must take seriously”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
“The sudden surge of hormones at teenage age will continue to play an important part in the life of young people”
― Oche Otorkpa, quote from The Unseen Terrorist
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“Earnest young knights are my favorite. I love the looks on their faces when they realize that they're being slow-cooked in their own armor.”
― Jessica Day George, quote from Dragon Slippers
“Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want. Perhaps better with music? But music attacks my inner ear like an antagonist, it's not my world. The fact is, the real experience can't be described. I think, bitterly, that a row of asterisks, like an old-fashioned novel, might be better. Or a symbol of some kind, a circle perhaps, or a square. Anything at all, but not words. The people who have been there, in the place in themselves where words, patterns, order, dissolve, will know what I mean and others won't. But once having been there, there's a terrible irony, a terrible shrug of the shoulders, and it's not a question of fighting it, or disowning it, or of right or wrong, but simply knowing it is there, always. It's a question of bowing to it, so to speak, with a kind of courtesy, as to an ancient enemy: All right, I know you are there, but we have to preserve the forms, don't we? And perhaps the condition of your existing at all is precisely that we preserve the forms, create the patterns - have you thought of that?”
― Doris Lessing, quote from The Golden Notebook
“All reality is a game. Physics at its most fundamental, the very fabric of our universe, results directly from the interaction of certain fairly simple rules, and chance; the same description may be applied to the best, most elefant and both intellectually and aesthetically satisfying games. By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains makkeable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use an unfashionable word. In this, the future is a game; time is one of the rules. Generally, all the best mechanistic games - those which can be played in any sense "perfectly", such as a grid, Prallian scope, 'nkraytle, chess, Farnic dimensions - can be traced to civilisations lacking a realistic view of the universe (let alone the reality). They are also, I might add, invariably pre-machine-sentience societies.
The very first-rank games acknowledge the element of chance, even if they rightly restrict raw luck. To attempt to construct a game on any other lines, no matter how complicated and subtle the rules are, and regardless of the scale and differentiation of the playing volume and the variety of the powers and attibutes of the pieces, is inevitably to schackle oneself to a conspectus which is not merely socially but techno-philosophically lagging several ages behind our own. As a historical exercise it might have some value, As a work of the intellect, it's just a waste of time. If you want to make something old-fashioned, why not build a wooden sailing boat, or a steam engine? They're just as complicated and demanding as a mechanistic game, and you'll keep fit at the same time.”
― Iain M. Banks, quote from The Player of Games
“Seward appreciated the honest and open way that Stanton lied; it was the hallmark of the truly great lawyer, and demonstrated a professional mastery not unlike his own.”
― Gore Vidal, quote from Lincoln
“By contrast, the grime of her journey, the outré inappropriateness of the state of her, it felt like armor.
I earned this dirt.
Respect. The dirt.”
― Laini Taylor, quote from Dreams of Gods & Monsters
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