"We're more concerned about climate or economic equality or racial justice or anything else that is good for people and the planet, we simply must also spend some time wresting back our money-marinated democracy. This will require getting money out of politics and then getting people back in."

-- Annie Leonard

#People Quotes #Justice Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.”
“O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?”
“Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.”

Source : Witold Gombrowicz (2011). “Cosmos: A Novel”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.”
“Plato was a bore.”
“Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.”
“Exercise makes me a better parent. I'm calmer and happier.”

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