"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it."

-- Karl Marx

#Change Quotes #Courage Quotes #Peace Quotes

“I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class.”

Source : "American Dreamer". www.motherjones.com. January/February 1997.
“We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.”
“The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.”
“As much as younger women are infused with a greater sense of possibility than most women of preceding generations, as a generation we are generally politically disengaged.”
“Aside from sending someone to war or to prison, government s ability to make people involuntarily give over their money is its strongest exercise of authority over private citizens and their institutions.”

Source : William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.79, Simon and Schuster
“The indulgence in grief is a blunder.”
“Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.”
“What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.”

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