"Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear."

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Source : "From pots to politics" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2003.

Naomi Klein

#Fear Quotes #Hate Quotes #Vacuums Quotes

“The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community.”
“One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it to describe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In the same breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in their lives. Wasnâ€™t that insulting? Shouldnâ€™t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?”
“Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some of my colleagues in other fields that I was interested in things outside mathematics. This lead quickly to very pleasant relationships.”
“I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified actor.' But I did think that 'House' was something I didn't have to apologise for. It was something I was really proud of and it was sort of... whether you liked it or not, it was undeniable.”
“I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There are days when I feel I have been able to grasp all there is know in one single gaze, as if invisible branches suddenly spring out of no where, weaving together all the disparate strands of my reading. And then suddenly the meaning escapes, the essence evaporates and no matter how often I reread the same lines they seem to flee ever further with each subsequent reading and I see myself as some mad old fool who thinks her stomach is full because she's been reading the menu.”
“The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.”

Source : Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Trine”, p.392, Simon and Schuster
“I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.”

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