"I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time."

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Peter Temple

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Issues Quotes

“A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.”
“On to the Next Dream is so outlandish. I call it absurdist fiction, because the story is utter hyperbole. The story builds to such an exaggerated and ridiculous pitch that there's no way it can be true - and yet, because it's based on the current cultural climate, it feels as if it is.”
“What is the quality of your intent?”
“Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within - for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster.”
“It is easier to run a revolution than a government.”

Source : 1977 In Time, 6 Jun.
“The whole world is a personality cult.”
“The method of authority will always govern the mass of mankind; and those who wield the various forms of organized force in the state will never be convinced that dangerous reasoning ought not to be suppressed in some way.”
“We call upon people everywhere to work for peace, to forget the quiet comfort of their homes, to leave behind their fears and feeling of powerlessness, their privileges and possessions, and join us as active participants and co-workers for peace.”

Source : Petra Karin Kelly (1984). “Fighting for Hope”, p.74, South End Press

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