"Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies."

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Source : Jon Ronson (2011). “The Psychopath Test”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

Jon Ronson

#Religious Quotes #Political Quotes #Ruins Quotes

“An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.”
“Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable.”

Source : Aurora Levins Morales (1998). “Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity”, p.125, South End Press
“He who believes he can and he who believes he cannot are both correct.”
“I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.”
“Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be.”
“You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.”
“To change the world, we must first change the way the babies are being born,”
“The real relatedness between two people is experienced in the small tasks they do together: the quiet conversation when the day's upheavels are at rest, the soft word of understanding, the daily companionship, the encouragement offered in a difficult moment, the small gift when least expected, the spontaneous gesture of love.”

Source : Robert A. Johnson (1983). “We, understanding the psychology of romantic love”, Harper San Francisco

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