Peter Buttigieg famous quotes

Self-care is important for all of us, especially because we're in what amounts to a nationally traumatic phase. I think part of it is to remember that there is more to opposition than opposition. In other words, it's not just about recognizing and cataloguing and publicizing all the things that are going wrong; it's about modeling and celebrating the alternative.
-- Peter Buttigieg

#Thinking #Important #Remember

Those of us who work in politics can only make ourselves useful if our heads are filled with things that we can contribute to the political space. JFK had this quote about how if more politicians knew poetry and more poets knew about politics, the world would be a better place. Being attentive to the things that add meaning to our lives alongside politics will help us inform our politics with the values that really do make America great.
-- Peter Buttigieg

#Political #World #Helping

What's worse: a president who is very faithful to an ideology that you find extreme, or a president who is very cynical and appears to have no ideology at all? Neither one of those things is great.
-- Peter Buttigieg

#Cynical #Faithful #President

In really every area of the mayor's life, whether you're trying to fill in holes in the road, trying to keep your community safe, trying to have the robust neighborhood life, or trying to encourage the arts - really at every turn our job has gotten a lot harder under president Trump.
-- Peter Buttigieg

#Art #Community #Trying

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

When something important is going on, silence is a lie.

Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and ­irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.

Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?

I remember my mistakes more than my success.