"When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm."

--

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“There is a community in hip-hop. It doesn't seem like that anywhere else, except maybe in punk rock. But punk rock is tricky, because it has become such a pop thing. But in rap, there is still a feeling of community. Who are our peers? Rappers.”
“The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.”
“It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.”
“Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me”
“Let your actions be ruled by your heart, not by your mind”
“When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?”
“Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.”
“The press is our chief ideological weapon.”

Source : Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (1964). “The great mission of literature and art”

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