"Power to the peaceful!"

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Michael Franti

#Peace Quotes #Peaceful Quotes

“People who write about issues like poverty or terrorism are a part of the elite, and the distance between the elite and nonelite is growing very fast. You can move around the world but meet only people who speak your language, who share the same ideas, the same beliefs, and in doing so you can lose sight of the fact that the vast majority of the world does not think or believe in or speak the everyday discourse of the elite.”
“Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only place u can go. You keep going until it stops hurting, or until you find new things to hurt you worse, I guess. And that is the human condition, all of us lurching along in our own private miseries, because that's the way it is. Because, I guess, God didn't give us any choice. You grow up, I remembered Abigail telling me. You learn.”
“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”
“Sometimes I was so funny I couldnâ€™t stand myself.”

Source : Moira J. Moore (2006). “Resenting the Hero”, p.75, Penguin
“This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.”
“I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!”
“The Nazis quite clearly killed millions of Jews”

Source : Interview with John Humphrys, "Today" on BBC Radio 4, December 23, 2006.
“I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.”

Source : "AS Byatt: woman of letters and ...science!". "All In The Mind" with Antonia Byatt, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2010.

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