"It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground."

-- Germaine Greer

#Believe Quotes #Long Quotes #Personality Quotes

“The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.”
“There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them at the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility; their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl.”
“I don't remember much about my bar mitzvah. The only thing I remember - I killed! That's what I remembered. Nobody could follow me at my bar-mitzvah. It was over when I was done.”
“I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been devotional and my mind has been led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.”

Source : "Elizabeth Fry: Life and Labors of the Eminent Philanthropist, Preacher and Prison Reformer".
“Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.”

Source : FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Jan 28, 2014
“Pain is no longer pain when it is past.”

Source : Margaret Junkin Preston (1870). “Old Song and New”, p.260
“I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.”
“If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.”

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