"Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War."

-- Breyten Breytenbach

#Powerful Quotes #War Quotes #Mind Quotes

“It's so reassuring to have a woman heroine who triumphs with more than just what she has on the outside who has more to offer the world than just a pretty picture.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The thing I hear about a lot is when people over-sharpen their pencil with a single-blade pocket-sharpener and then when they put the pencil to the page, their tip breaks and pencil points always break irregularly. It always gets all jagged and you have to refresh the point. That's a common complaint.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.”
“To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.”
“As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.”
“Real communication happens when people feel safe.”
“If I see what you're up to on Facebook but I don't see your updates on Flickr, I'll still care about Facebook.”
“When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.”

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