"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich."

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Source : John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.234, Vintage

John Berger

#Priorities Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Scarcity Quotes

“Even when we tell kids to go play, what do the kids do? They come up with a set of constraints and structures. "Oh, we're gonna build a fort out of clothes, and now that we're in the fort we're going to pretend that we're prisoners," or whatever.”

Source : Source: app.longform.org
“The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.”
“You wouldn't replace your carpet at home if you still had a hole in the roof...We're talking about any time you start waving a carrot such as American citizenship without securing the borders, that number [of undocumented immigrants] that we have today I believe will double or triple.”
“Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.”
“When you give the American people the tools to make the right choices for themselves, they're going to do that.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.”

Source : Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee
“My nails dug into his back, and he trailed his lips down the edge of my chin, down the center of my neck. He kept going until he reached the bottom of the dressâ€™s V-neck. I let out a small gasp, and he kissed all around the neckline, just enough to tease.”
“Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.”

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