"Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer."

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Source : "If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth". Book by Helen Caldicott, 2009.

Helen Caldicott

#Running Quotes #Beer Quotes #Bars Quotes

“It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.”
“Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.”
“Perhaps why so much of today's photography doesn't grab us or mean anything to our personal lives is that it fails to touch upon the hidden life of the imagination and fantasy, which is hungry for stimulation.”
“I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I'm hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I'm scoring a goal in hockey.”
“Stripping for cash is yet another of my many talents”
“I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.”
“The gay male is always going to be at the bottom.”

Source : "'Kids in the Hall' Comic to Bullied Youth: 'Grow a Pair'". Interview with Chris Azzopardi, pridesource.com. October 27, 2011.
“For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.”

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