"Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work."

-- Pablo Antonio Cuadra

#Truth Quotes #Reality Quotes #Roots Quotes

“Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.”
“I consider all my films experiments.”
“To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to arouse deadened emotions, and to rise above our egos.”

Source : Joanne Stepaniak (2000). “Being Vegan”, McGraw Hill Professional
“Obamacare, without a single Republican vote, cut $700 billion out of Medicare.”

Source : "Louie Gohmert: America Must Stop Paying ItsEnemies". Rep. Louie Gohmert's keynote speech at the David Horowitz Freedom Center's 2013 West Coast Retreat, www.frontpagemag.com. March 24, 2013.
“Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that makes it necessary for a man to steal in order to live.”
“A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)”
“There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.”
“I am in England and the food here is not to be tasted as much as just swallowed without grimacing.”

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