"We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide."

-- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#Realizing Quotes #Genocide Quotes #Machetes Quotes

“Worshiping God even amid despair is a way to defy the Adversary and declare our valuing of the good-the best-in life: the Lord!”
“Nature is none other than God in things... Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things... Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.”
“All hail the dragon slayer!" (Bones)”
“When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.”

Source : 1926 The Art of Being Ruled.
“I think oldest children have a different mentality or know that there were different expectations of them, and I was not only the oldest child - I was the oldest grandchild of 18 grandchildren. I definitely grew up feeling like there were a lot of people who expected me to do something. But it was a very conservative family, very conservative neighborhood. I'm talking mid- to late '60s when I was growing up there, and so if I had stayed in the Boston area, I think my life would have been radically different.”
“Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.”
“But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.”
“Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it's worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing. Stand up and face the east. Now praise the sky and praise the light within each person under the sky. It's okay to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise.”

Source : Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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