"People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely."

-- Steven Pinker

#Acceptance Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“Maybe it's the stardust in my head.”
“Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.”
“The workers spend what they get, and capitalists get what they spend.”
“But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.”
“I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.”
“Success is not in what you have, but who you are.”
“Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.”
“Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.”

Source : Kakuzo Okakura (2008). “The Book of Tea”, p.43, Applewood Books

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