"At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness."

-- Henri Barbusse

#Heartbreaking Quotes #Mankind Quotes

“The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill.”
“The specifics of the platform, I don`t think, are necessarily going to be written by Bernie Sanders, but the themes of the platform are going to be written by Bernie Sanders.”
“I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me.”
“To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.”

Source : Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.102, Open Road Media
“No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.
“Once youve changed who you are or who youve portrayed in your music, the fans, theyll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.”
“I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“Sometimes I'm trying to communicate a feeling. Sometimes I can't piece it together into any kind of coherant thesis. I'm just trying to evoke some kind of mood, and put some kind of idea in somebody's head. If Marshall McLuhan or Harold Innis were looking at it, they would tell you that the genre of rock music isn't the best way to deliver a political message because it distorts it, it makes it into entertainment. Perhaps the best political message is just to speak it to somebody. I think that's something I'm always writing about in songs, just how to mediate, how to present something.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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