"The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision."

-- Anais Nin

#Voice Quotes #Vision Quotes #Radio Quotes

“Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy's house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded - after all, the cop was protecting us.”
“I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.”
“There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.”
“Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.”

Source : "George Ayittey: How to Defeat a Dictator". Interview with Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com.
“At the end of my suffering/there was a door.”

Source : "Wild Iris". Book by Louise Glück, therumpus.net. November 1, 1993.
“I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“The lesson is obvious. True missionaries concentrate on doing the work of Mark 16:15 rather than operating social-welfare programs. True missionaries serve the message of Christ, not the institutions of the church.”
“He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.”

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