"[But if things continue the way they are] ...the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war."

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Source : "Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict". Book by Tony Kushner, Alisa Solomon, p. 16., 2003.

Ahad Ha'am

#Dream Quotes #War Quotes #Panic Quotes

“The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.”
“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.”
“I rarely feel like I'm in chaos, but when I am, I usually [retreat] and try to find the eye of the storm; if I'm still and listen and don't engage, maybe the chaos will subside.”
“An artist should be as impartial as God.”
“The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.”

Source : "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future". Book by Daniel H. Pink, 2005.
“In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.”
“Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.”
“If I were to die of anything vaguely sex-related or had taken Viagra, you just know there'd be headlines of 'Russell How-hard' in the newspapers.”

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