"I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible."

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Source : "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

Todd Gitlin

#Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes #Limits Quotes

“Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe. And to the same Divine Author of every good and perfect gift we are indebted for all those privileges and advantages, religious as well as civil, which are so richly enjoyed in this favored land.”
“Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?”
“The chemicals that are running our body and our brain are the same chemicals that are involved in emotion. And that says to me that . . . wed better pay more attention to emotions with respect to health.”
“We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.”
“The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.”
“Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.”
“Without God there would be no freedom to believe what you want.”
“For all of those who wanna profile and pose Rock you in your face, stab your brain with your nose bone.”

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