"If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity."

-- Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

#People Quotes #History Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to madness? They have more than average amounts of energies and abilities to see things in a fresh and original wayâ€”then because they also have depression, I think theyâ€™re more in touch with human suffering.”

Source : Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.140, Faber & Faber
“Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.”
“I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.”
“We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.”
“Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth ... What a vast amount of labour and learning has been expended, as uselessly as emptying shallow puddles into sieves! How much intellect has been employed mousing after texts, to sustain preconceived doctrines!”
“Be passionate about your [movie] material, because you're going to have to overcome a lot of "No's," and it's that passion that fuels the fight.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“Your belief systems limit your reality to a sub-set of the solution space that does not contain the answer.”

Source : Thomas Campbell (2003). “My Big Toe: Book 2 : Discovery”, p.336, Lightning Strike Books
“The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because it's the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.”

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