"It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it."

-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Choices Quotes #Conformity Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.”
“You cannot hurt me. Only I can do that.”
“I think the truth is black-and-white .”
“When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad and bad and need art that breaks your heart and takes you to those places where pain becomes beauty.”

Source : Marlene Dumas, Gianni Romano, Angela Vettese (2003). “Marlene Dumas: suspect”, Skira - Berenice
“I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.”
“To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing--and a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes good--but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.”
“But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.”
“I'm somewhat of a raptivist but I wasn't attempting to make a socio-political statement as much as I was attempting to voice for the voiceless whatever ideas that came to mind if I was in that situation.”

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