"Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think."

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Source : Gil Courtemanche (2007). “A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali”, p.178, Vintage

Gil Courtemanche

#Powerful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Deceit Quotes

“We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.”
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
“I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people who's trying to make that place worth living for both Jews and Palestinians.”
“It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.”
“You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it.”
“The things that are more my own style are something that I don't really have to think about. The only time I have to think about them is if I want to force myself not to do it the way I do it.”
“Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.”
“When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.”

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