"Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection."

-- Benjamin Barber

#Life Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Tolerance Quotes

“Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.”
“Above all else, I had learned the one thing every person has to learn to make it through life: the only person you can truly count on is yourself.”
“Consider the biggest animals on the planet: elephants, and buffaloes, and giraffes. These are vegetarian animals. They grow to thousands of pounds of muscle and bone without ever eating cheeseburgers and pepperoni pizzas.”
“The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.”
“I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.”
“Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement?”

Source : Chris Kraus (2015). “I Love Dick”, p.173, Profile Books
“Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once totally logical and perfectly irrational?”
“I have resigned from the professional undertaking of coin flipping. I am not here to tell you where gold's going to be. I have no idea. That's my existentialism. I am a student of uncertainty, I have no idea where the stock market is going to be. So when I am creating trades in my portfolio for my clients, I am agnostic. I just want to enhance the probability that I make money come what may.”

You may also like:

Francis Fukuyama
Political scientist
Hannah Arendt
Philosopher
Hillary Clinton
Former United States Secretary of State
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher
John Dewey
Philosopher
Jurgen Habermas
Philosopher
Robert A. Dahl
Political scientist
Samuel P. Huntington
Political scientist
Patrick Watson
Singer