"Palestinians want a state of their own. They want to live in freedom. They want to get rid of the terrible misery in which they are living. They are ready after fifty years to accept a state of their own in 22 percent of what used to be the country of Palestine. I think it is the height of stupidity on our part if we don't grasp this opportunity."

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Source : Source: progressive.org

Uri Avnery

#Country Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.”
“Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own.”
“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”

Source : Upton Sinclair (2016). “Presidential Agent”, p.373, Open Road Media
“Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesnâ€™t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that salt solution but the pain or rage, the biting shame that lodged it there. Even they are diluted or denied.”
“The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe.”
“Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.”
“Money doesn't motivate, but stats do.”
“Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.”

Source : Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com

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