"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses."

-- Plato

#Lying Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Culture Quotes

“To native peoples, there is no such thing as the first, second, and third worlds; there is only an exploiting world ... whether its technological system is capitalist or communist ... and a host world. Native peoples, who occupy more land, make up the host world.”
“The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.”

Source : "Tom Hiddleston: 'The dream is to keep surprising yourself'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.
“There, in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a one in front of that 555 feet, we get 1555, the year that our first fathers landed on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia as slaves.”
“I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.”
“I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.”
“The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.”
“May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.”

Source : "Peering into the Looming Lenten Dark" by Scott Cairns, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2011.
“In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.”

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