"The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy."

-- Paul Wellstone

#Ideas Quotes #Hypocrisy Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.”
“There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.”
“Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.”
“Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.”
“I have a great life and I'm super active.”
“We're always too skinny, or too fat. Too tall, or too short. We're shaming each other, and we're shaming ourselves, and it sucks.”
“As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.”

Source : Ken Wilber (1999). “The Collected Works of Ken Wilber: The Atman Project ; Up from Eden”, Shambhala Publications
“The lion in the jungle makes every other animal sit up and take notice as soon as he lets out a roar. He didn't get that way through artificial paraphernalia or through springs and wires and trick dumbells. He became the king of the jungle through constant natural use of every muscle in his body.”

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