"To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie."

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Paulo Freire

#Lying Quotes #People Quotes #Silence Quotes

“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”

Source : Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”
“A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.”

Source : Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.102, Northwestern University Press
“In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.”
“Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.”
“When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!”

Source : Slavoj Žižek, Slavoj Zizek (2011). “Living in the End Times”, p.4, Verso
“I approach mastering a little differently than some of my peers: I spend a lot of time creating a dialogue with the artist and the producers and mixers to try and get what they really are looking for.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Unfortunately most accidents are preventable. Planes don't fall out of the sky unless something is wrong.”

Source : "FAA inspector: White House didn't force her out". www.cnn.com. July 9, 1996.
“I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.”

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