"We need to learn to listen to what the people need and want and not try to impose on them a whole schema that they may not. This is historically difficult stuff: how do we balance the project of raising consciousness, advancing a vision of utopia, with the real and honest engagement in real-world experiments?"

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Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Gar Alperovitz

#Real Quotes #People Quotes #Vision Quotes

“I think we may very well, in many areas, get likelihood, but not certitude. We don't want certitude anyway, do we?”

Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
“Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.”
“We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. She is the only person left in the world who shares my memories of our childhood, our parents, our Shanghai, our struggles, our sorrows, and, yes, even our moments of happiness and triumph. My sister is the one person who truly knows me, as I know her. The last thing May says to me is 'When our hair is white, we'll still have our sister love.”

Source : Lisa See (2013). “Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy: Two Bestselling Novels”, p.412, Random House
“Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's heart.”

Source : Nash Buckingham (1936). “Mark Right!: Tales of Shooting & Fishing”
“It is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.”
“The First Man is [Albert Camus] posthumous last work. But in fact, in a certain way, it is his first, because in it you find the signs of his commitments, and of the whole way of writing as well. This mixture of austerity and sensuality, the will to speak for those not able to speak for themselves.”

Source : Source: www.spikemagazine.com
“Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.”

Source : Daniel Suarez (2010). “Freedom (TM)”, p.18, Penguin
“War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.”

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