"So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible."

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#Running Quotes #War Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need solitude, and seek alienation of a kind every day of their working lives. (And remember, they are not even aware when and when not they are working.) ... The tension between standing apart and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.”

Source : Nadine Gordimer (1983). “Selected Stories”, Viking Press
“You have to invest if you want to restore balance to the world.”
“There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.”

Source : Song: Invisible Hunter Hayes, Album: Storyline, 2014
“The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.”
“When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.”
“Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.”
“The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.”
“The man who goes on, even when it's the hardest to be the winner.”

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