"The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive."

-- Dalai Lama

#Compassion Quotes #Luxury Quotes #Cultivation Quotes

“Keep your mind going in the right direction, and your life will catch up with it.”
“The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.”
“I began teaching my son how to shoot when he was two, starting with the basics of a BB rifle. My theory is that kids get into trouble because of curiosityâ€”if you donâ€™t satisfy it, youâ€™re asking for big problems. If you inform them and carefully instruct them on safety when theyâ€™re young, you avoid a lot of the trouble. My son has learned to respect weapons. Iâ€™ve always told him, if you want to use a gun, come get me. Thereâ€™s nothing I like better than shooting.”
“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor.”

Source : Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: rich nations, poor policies, and the threat to the developing world”, Century
“The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which....pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.”
“In politics, when you`re explaining, you`re losing.”
“Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.”
“I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]”

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