"Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative."

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Source : "Britain's intellectuals: leading thinkers have their say". www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

Susie Orbach

#Views Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Political Quotes

“Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.”
“Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.”
“In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.”
“The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.”
“In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.”
“If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.”

Source : "Bridging the gap between environmental and social justice" by Lauren Rabaino, mustangnews.net. April 4, 2008.
“I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager.”
“Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.”

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