"Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years."

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Martin Durkin

#Past Quotes #Years Quotes #West Quotes

“If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.”
“I declare myself an Austrian and a European. A united Europe will be a peaceful Europe.”
“He who cannot love must learn to flatter.”
“Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try to know them without my mind pressing against theirs, or arguing or changing the subject. No. My attitude is: "Tell me more. This person is showing me his soul. It is a little dry and meager and full of grinding talk just now, but presently he will begin to think, not just automatically to talk. He will show his true self. Then he will be wonderfully alive."”

Source : Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press
“Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.”
“Music is not disposable, people. We can twist it, sample it, mash it and experience it in endless ways. Open up.”
“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”
“We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.”

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