"There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge. It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability."

-- Judith Butler

#Revenge Quotes #Grief Quotes #People Quotes

“Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.”
“It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.”
“We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press.”
“It was a time of madness, the sort of mad-hysteria that always presages war. There seems to be nothing left but war--when any population in any sort of a nation gets violently angry, civilization falls down and religion forsakes its hold on the consciences of human kind in such times of public madness.”
“Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.”
“Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.”
“I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.”
“I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.”

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