"The past influences everything and dictates nothing."

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Source : Adam Phillips (1999). “Darwin's Worms”, Basic Books (AZ)

Adam Phillips

#Past Quotes #Influence Quotes

“Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.”
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
“Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.”

Source : "How I got the courage to tell my story" by Sarah Kay, www.cnn.com. May 1, 2011.
“No judge can stop us from praying for our country and I pray that on May 6, millions of Americans will join me in praying for our President, all of our elected leaders, and even for this unjust judge and all those who rule from the bench - that God would guide them and give them wisdom.”
“Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.”
“Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.”
“All cultures forged by nationsâ€”the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth of Africa and Oceaniaâ€”are corroded by the American way of life. In this way, neoliberalism imposes the destruction of nations and groups of nations in order to reconstruct them according to a single model. This is a planetary war, of the worst and cruelest kind, waged against humanity.”
“What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?”

Source : Amitav Ghosh (2001). “The Glass Palace: A Novel”, p.31, Random House

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