"Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society."

-- Owen Jones

#Backbone Quotes #Ideological Quotes

“Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.”

Source : Source: www.poetspath.com
“But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!”
“I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.”
“The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.”
“The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshiping men. This she has not done deliberately, but little by little and without her knowledge; and her very unawareness only makes her situation all the more tragic.”
“The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.”

Source : Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.66, Hachette UK
“To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.”

Source : "China’s Olympic Crossroads: Author Ma Jian on Beijing, Spectacle and Reality". Interview with Flora Zhang, beijing2008.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2008.
“Every Saturday we work in the yard, pick up the dog doo, hope that it's hard.”

Source : Song: Ordinary Average Guy

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