"People believe pictures. It's a photograph that's in your passport, not a painting. Now, George Bernard Shaw said, 'I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.' That's what the power of photography is."

-- Philip Jones Griffiths

#Photography Quotes #Believe Quotes #People Quotes

“Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.”
“I was at the World Bank and a commission reviewed our work on inequality for the U.S. Congress or somebody, and the head of the commission said to us: "You are spending taxpayer money to study issues like inequality? Which goes directly against capitalism and growth." That was the perception, that it should not be studied.”
“When you're 21 you think, "Old people sound like this. Old people think like this." I don't think my ideas about aging and about eternal life changed that much, but it became more poignant to me as I did get older and I could better imagine, as you sort of inch closer to death every day, why legacy, more than aging, becomes important to people.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I'm not particularly optimistic, but I hope that the lack of alternatives will lead to it. I would like to remind you of the fact that before May 2015 there was no overall European agenda on immigration. Nothing, zero. It wasn't until after yet another tragedy in the Mediterranean that, in response to an Italian initiative, (Europe) began thinking about setting policies for the registration of refugees, their distribution or their deportation.”
“Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?”

Source : Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature”, p.110, VM eBooks
“I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster.”
“You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.”
“I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.”

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