"For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity."

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Source : Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

Frantz Fanon

#Land Quotes #People Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.”
“Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates to maintain these errors. When the clouds of ignorance began to vanish and the people grew more enlightened, there was no other way to keep them in error but to prohibit their altering their religious opinions by severe persecuting laws. In this way persecution became general throughout Europe.”
“The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be.”
“I haven't always been the guy that walks into a room and automatically the attention is on me. I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner.”
“Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our passion craved. Our speech was more of love than of the books which lay open before us; our kisses far outnumbered our reasoned words.”

Source : Peter Abelard (2012). “Historia Calamitatum - The Story Of My Misfortunes (Annotated Edition)”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag
“Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.”
“In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.”
“The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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