"... we have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey?"

-- Edna O'Brien

#Voice Quotes #Knows Quotes

“Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.”
“I believe the impossible is possible to overcome I believe in miracles Born from love in everyone”

Source : "Tangled Press Conference". Interview with Becky Reed, diymag.com. January 26, 2011.
“Violence is man re-creating himself.”
“[T]hese losses of the Church in the past hundred years give us reason to fear in the present misfortune that in another hundred years we may lose the Church entirely in Europe. So, keeping this fear in mind, blessed are those who cooperate in extending the Church elsewhere.”
“What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?”

Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.196, Penguin UK
“If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.”
“We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games.”
“Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth.”

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