"Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy."

-- Derrick Jensen

#Culture Quotes #Wealth Quotes #Ability Quotes

“Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.”
“There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing.”
“Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.”
“How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?”

Source : "New Stage Production Explores Black Church Arsons" by Adelle M. Banks, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2010.
“I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.”
“Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.”
“A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.”
“It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.”

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