"Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system."

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Source : "Women on War : Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age" by Daniela Gioseffi, (p. 103), 1988.

Dorothy Day

#Acceptance Quotes #Tyrants Quotes #Rotten Quotes

“I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.”
“You put me in a race where there's a lot on the line, especially when people tell me 'you can't win', or 'you're too small', you tell me those things and I'll find a way to prove you wrong.”
“If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.”
“I prefer being penetrated by iron to seeing Palestine is loose.”
“The important thing is to learn through experience. The more you do the more you learn. I don't think anyone can teach acting from a podium.”
“The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Falling in love with him was completely unexpected. When you only see someone as a friend, you donâ€™t expect anything else. There was definitely a moment when something quite magical happened and we both agree that it transformed our relationship.”
“And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.”

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