"As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we're most afraid of. We associate sounds with some dangerous idea, and right now the most dangerous thing to us are the differences between us."

-- Richard Dooling

#Ideas Quotes #Differences Quotes #Sound Quotes

“If someone loves you, they can fall out of love with you but they're probably going to keep fearing you. That's where we are with [Donald] Trump.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
“What we revealed is that this spying system is devoted not to terrorists, but is directed to innocent people around the world. None of this has anything to do with terrorism. Is Angela Merkel a terrorist?”
“But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.”
“All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!”
“Come windless invader I am a carnival of Stars, a poem of blood.”

Source : Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems”, p.25, Beacon Press
“It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law”

Source : Thomas Hobbes, Alan Cromartie, Quentin Skinner (2005). “Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right: A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student, of the Common Laws of England. Questions Relative to Hereditary Right”, p.10, Oxford University Press
“Submit to the fate of your own free will.”
“When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near the Canadian border, from Argentina, and there was nobody there that spoke Spanish, and because there was no internet at the time, not even cable TV yet, I lost the connection with my childhood friends and the culture I had been brought up with for my first decade completely.”

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