"Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives."

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Source : Tony Judt (2010). “The Memory Chalet”, p.96, Penguin

Tony Judt

#People Quotes #Alternatives Quotes #Inability Quotes

“I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.”
“We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.”
“I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.”
“I am in an endless journey towards an infinite route, only to find a real world of humanity. This thirst is eternal. I will keep walking, touching every faces I drop through my lens. I will show the world - those unknown stories of sufferings. If a single hand comes to give them a shade that is the real honor of my sweat”
“There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“One of the best lovers in Hollywood. What would a title like that encompass exactly? She wondered. Technique? Enthusiasm? Or was it more about equipment?”

Source : Sarah Mayberry (2008). “Burning Up”, p.57, Harlequin
“Because I'm in advertising, not electricity!”
“The first ever attack, the Islamic State carried out was in August 2003 on the Jordanian Embassy. ISIS, in its history, has had or four different names. It's had four different leaders. But it was all started by one man, the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al Zarqawi who the U.S. killed in June 2006.”

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