"The genocide (in Rwanda) was a collective act.Â What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible, was the absence, the erasure, of seeing the other.Â Of knowing, of feeling, of being with the other.Â And when that's removed, then politics can become genocidal."

-- James Orbinski

#Knowing Quotes #Political Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.”
“Pick your battles, and accept yourself for who you are.”
“His aster-blue eyes shown out from a face blackened by bruises and soot, his fair hair glittering in the firelight. Dressed all in black, silhouetted against flame, he looked rather like a demon, raised from the dead, trading for souls on the other side.”
“Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till the morning.”

Source : Johanna Spyri (2015). “Heidi”, p.47, First Avenue Editions
“Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.”
“I love to know that in all parts of the world, people want me. I need the attention.”
“It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.”
“All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.”

Source : John Stuart Blackie (1877). “The Wise Men of Greece: In a Series of Dramatic Dialogues”

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