Quotes
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Valerie Solanas

"Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom, leisure time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to deep friendship, but which our "society" provides practically no opportunity to engage in."

Source : Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, 1967.

Valerie Solanas

#Opportunity Quotes #Our Society Quotes #Leisure Quotes

“No one in Washington realizes you can't borrow money endlessly.”
“A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some”
“If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.”
“Pablito, the Bible was meant to be a bridge, not a wedge. It's the greatest love story ever told, about God's enduring and unconditional love for his creation--love beyond all reason. To understand it, you have to read it with love as the standard. Love God. Love your neighbor. Love yourself. Always remember that.”
“The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace.”
“It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?”
“My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.”
“...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of prejudice and fixed ideas, when all the time it is more likely that the machine which contains them is only an elaborate cement-mixer, and when the thinking is finished, those whirling thoughts are smoothed into the unchanged conventional mould and seeing them set solid enough to dance, to build, to travel upon, we would never dream of their first deceit, of the hope once roused by their apparently violent reorganisation...”

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