"I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people's revolution."

-- Lynne Stewart

#People Quotes #Leader Quotes #Revolution Quotes

“Life comes from death, and weakness teaches us strength.”

Source : Dan Wells (2014). “The Partials Sequence Complete Collection: Partials, Isolation, Fragment, Ruins”, p.46, Harper Collins
“To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men, contemporary society for all possible societies, and, by a remarkable transformation, to justify what is as what needs must be; social repression becomes a response to, rather than a cause of, human violence. Pessimism about man serves to maintain the status quo. It is a luxury for the affluent, a sop to the guilt of the politically inactive, a comfort to those who continue to enjoy the amenities of privilege.”
“I think growing up, we always try to make sense of who we are, what we go through, and I grew up in a very religious household. I interpreted what was wrong with me through religious language and I concluded, probably because of a combination of forces around me, that there was something in me that God didn't like or was unhappy with. Since these problems were in large part congenital, that meant that I was doomed from the beginning. I didn't have a chance.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.”
“I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.”
“Boy lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers... are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and parents who force their staid morality onto the young people in their custody.”
“Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.”
“The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.”

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