"My music, it breathes. It's the mysticism of sound. I'm a sound seeker, and I'm enthralled with it, by what it can do to change the molecules and uplift people. They feel something when we play. I can't take authorship for that. I can take that I'm in service."

-- Charles Lloyd

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“I think there's a very fundamental urge to create a safe space, a home; most animals have that impulse, and humans certainly do - with some exceptions, like nomadic people who perhaps don't feel the need to settle in quite that way. But most of us do want to have space, somewhere we feel secure and where we repeatedly return. Somewhere we can sleep without fear. And there's nothing wrong with that desire. It's completely understandable. It only becomes ugly when that creation of a safe space involves making an enclosure from which other people are kept out.”
“I don't understand why it's more socially acceptable to say that you are a shallow person than to just say this is not something you want to do. Especially because it's a really hard job. It's a really important job. And why the hell should you do a really hard, important job that you don't want to do? That has extremely high stakes? That just blows my mind.”
“I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.”

Source : Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group
“In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.”

Source : "Letter to a Christian Nation". Book by Sam Harris, 2006.
“In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.”

Source : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.
“Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen all, to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea.”
“The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?”
“I think every good, entertaining movie should have a message. I really believe that, because if you do it without it, the film feels a little bit soulless.”

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