"In order to prepare for meaningful change, we have to look at both sides of the problem. We need to examine the output of our political system, which is often very hostile to the poor abroad and hostile also to the poor and middle class domestically. And we must also look at the procedures through which this output is produced."

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Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Thomas Pogge

#Meaningful Quotes #Order Quotes #Class Quotes

“Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.”

Source : "Idle breaks" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2005.
“If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.”
“Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet. Making contact with this Wild Man is the step the Eighties male or the Nineties male has yet to take. That bucketing-out process has yet to begin in our contemporary culture.”
“By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.”
“We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.”
“His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.”

Source : Laura Hillenbrand (2003). “Seabiscuit: An American Legend”, p.49, Ballantine Books
“By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.”
“I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do.”

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