"Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions."

-- Cory Doctorow

#Past Quotes #Stories Quotes #Slides Quotes

“The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.”
“Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.”
“The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule.”

Source : Editorial by the North American Congress on Latin America, July 2003.
“Many feel that sitting at a screen sweating over the design of handrail details for the next cute downtown boutique hotel just doesn't make sense when more than 150,000 people have lost their lives, more than five million people have been made homeless and whole towns have been swept away.”

Source : "What can we do?" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2005.
“People need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”
“Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.”

Source : "The Holocaust Industry". Book by Norman Finkelstein, www.theguardian.com. 2000.

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