"I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president â€” which means, in our time, a dangerous president â€” unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction."

-- Howard Zinn

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.”
“Sometimes you get more creativity when you're in a box than when you can do anything. In really difficult situations, sometimes, you get the most interesting thinking.”
“Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.”
“The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their own interests.”

Source : "Atamansha: the Story of Maria Nikiforova, the Anarchist Joan of Arc" by Malcolm Archibald, Dublin: Black Cat Press, (p. 10), 2007.
“Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.”
“As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.”

Source : Aphra Behn (2009). “Oroonoko and Other Writings”, p.75, Oxford Paperbacks
“The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.”

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