"We still find, especially in parts of academe, the damaging notion that everything is a struggle for power, or being empowered, or hegemony, or oppression: and that all competition is a zero-sum game. This is not more than repetition of Lenin's destructive doctrine. Intellectually, it is reductionism; politically, it is fanaticism."

-- Robert Conquest

#Zero Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Games Quotes

“I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.”
“We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's a punch in the belly to see what has happened in the church and the world. Dualistic thinking seems to have taken over the church and our politics to a really neurotic degree.”
“I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”

Source : James Joyce (2016). “DUBLINERS (Modern Classics Series): The Sisters, An Encounter, Araby, Eveline, After the Race, Two Gallants, The Boarding House, A Little Cloud, Counterparts, Clay, A Painful Case, Ivy Day in the Committee Room, Mother, Grace & The Dead”, p.12, e-artnow
“I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.”
“The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you.”
“I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag.”

Source : "Living on Earth: Helping the Prez, Greening the Rez". Interview with Steve Curwood, www.organicconsumers.org. January 16, 2009.
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
“Peter remained very quiet and shy, but when he spoke it made sense.”

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