"We are all alike, on the inside."

-- Mark Twain

#Inspiration Quotes #Equality Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.”
“No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances.”

Source : Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.143, University of Chicago Press
“All is race - there is no other truth.”
“Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.”

Source : "Deborah Kass On Appropriation, Barbra Streisand, And The Dissolving Middle Class". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.
“I'm not advocating violence but I think somebody should shoot Simon Cowell.”

Source : "Simon Cowell Criticizes Depeche Mode Member for Saying He Should Be Shot" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 26, 2012.
“Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.”

Source : "Fictional character: Terry McKay". "An Affair to Remember", www.imdb.com. 1957.
“I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.”

Source : Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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