"The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the world on democracy. It's an unbelievable show of self-satisfaction and arrogance."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Jean Ziegler

#Rocks Quotes #Self Quotes #Class Quotes

“Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home.”
“Here is what I'm trying to tell you:Â AdultÂ isn't a noun, it's a verb. It's the act of making correctly those small decisions that fill our day. It is one that you can practice, and that can be done in concrete steps. And if you slip up and have Diet Coke for breakfast, no one busts in and snatches away your Adult card. Just move forward and have milk tomorrow.”
“Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline . . . has really been successful, so the odds of JetBlue having long-term success are remote. I'm not going to say it can't happen because stranger things have happened, but I personally believe P.T. Barnum was, in that respect, correct.”
“I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.”

Source : "Sadie Frost: My family values" by Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2010.
“I received compassion from the people I deserved it least from when I least deserved it, and that helped change me. When you take fear and isolation and put grievance on top, it's all too easy for people to hate and blame somebody else for their problems.”

Source : Source: chicagoist.com
“We were just hanging out and getting to learn about each other. But I think trust was a really big thing. Patti [Smith] is a good friend, somebody I can talk to.”
“I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality, and about the language used in relation to the two.”

Source : "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.jadaliyya.com. February 3, 2015.
“The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.”

Source : "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 7, 1799.

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