"My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: "The people are my God."

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Source : Comment to Cheondoist independence activist Kim In Jin in 1936. "With the Century". Book by Kim Il-sung, 1992.

Kim Il-sung

#People Quotes #Earth Quotes #Lifetime Quotes

“In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.”

Source : "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.
“The fact that some former national security officials challenge the policy wisdom of the order, while other national security officials - most notably those of this [Donald Trump's] administration - support it, merely demonstrates that these are policy disputes that the judiciary is both ill-equipped and constitutionally barred from arbitrating.”

Source : "Is President Trump’s executive order constitutional?". Interview with James Downie, www.washingtonpost.com. February 6, 2017.
“A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.”
“When I've mentioned things that I thought only happened to me, or thoughts that I felt had only had crossed my mind, the audience response indicated that they seemed to have happened to, or been thought of by many people.”
“Dangerously wellâ€™â€” what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling â€˜too well”
“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.”

Source : Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.198, Penguin
“Of course, the process of curating is different from art making. Exhibition-making is a process that involves collaboration with various participating artists.”

Source : Source: u-in-u.com
“Wear what you feel comfortable with. People say nasty things about what I wear in the street. I'm always in worst dressed lists, but you just have to dress for yourself and Ânobody else.”

Source : "Helena Bonham Carter unworried by Oscars after Bafta success" by Dean Piper, www.mirror.co.uk. February 20, 2011.

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