"[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand."

-- Ivan Krastev

#Motivation Quotes #Believe Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.”
“All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life.”
“In the most basic terms it was about how when we experience art without critical awareness we consent to the ideas being promoted, either intentionally or unintentionally, by the filmmaker. For instance, if you watch a racist comedian and laugh at his jokes, you are consenting to the prejudices inherent within them. Similarly, if you watch a movie which perpetuates conventional ideas about race, gender, etc., you are consenting to them and not affecting change in any way.”
“The work of art ... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.”
“The Bible is one story that unfolds in one book, by one author, about one subject. A story that moves from promise to fulfillment.”
“I don't want to be like, yes, I think the American answer is always stupid, or I think it's always the right answer. So I'm in this weird place there. I'm feeling it out. Cambodia is going through an enormous amount of change right now. Daily.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.”

Source : Sam Houston (1943). “The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1825-1863”
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 30, 2013

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