"Violence is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation. Violence is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers."

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Source : Source: www.progressive.org

Uri Avnery

#Resistance Quotes #Violence Quotes #Facts Quotes

“All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.”

Source : Nicholas Culpeper (1785). “The English Physician Enlarged: With Three Hundred and Sixty-nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs, that Were Not in Any Impression Until this : Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation ...”, p.335
“I know six years is a big break. But I never walked away from music. I never released an album because I wanted to do a different album, something I have never done before,”
“There's this thing that you're not meant to have too many children - for global warming, it's bad. But I know lots of crappy people, and I would rather that good people have lots of kids and outnumber the baddies.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I seen a baby cry seconds later he laughs... the beauty of life, the pain never lasts.”
“I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister.”
“I'm an explorer by nature, and being an entrepreneur allows me to explore new opportunities and technologies. And that's the best part of it.”

Source : Source: www.ncwit.org
“most Americans are in deep awe of things-as-they-are. Even with everything this obviously out of control, they still tell themselves that those in authority must know what they are doing, and must be describing our condition to us as it really is; they still take it for granted that somehow what is, what is done, must make sense, can't really be insane. These assumptions exercise a tyranny over their minds.”
“I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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