"You don't see Los Angeles erecting a museum dedicated to the birth place of the Crips and the Bloods and the Mexican Mafia, with a special guided bus tour highlighting the rise of the crack trade, yet you can hop on a bus in Chicago tomorrow to see the famous locales of murders. I have to imagine there's some wonderful academic book on the sociology of this out there."

-- Tod Goldberg

#Book Quotes #Museums Quotes #Blood Quotes

“It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek themselves aright!”
“If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology.”

Source : Karen Armstrong (2007). “The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness”, p.212, Anchor
“Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ***** is incapable of understanding musical harmony.”
“I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.”
“There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.”
“The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, 'Are these words true?' If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate, we ask, 'Are the necessary?' At the last gate, we ask, 'Are they kind?'”
“If a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.”
“The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.”

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