"Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified."

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Source : "Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova: Why I have gone on hunger strike" by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2013.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#Shadow Quotes #Prisoner Quotes

“Every work of art (unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as with Brecht ) is outside ideology, is not reducible to ideology. Ideology circumscribes without penetrating it. The absence of ideology in a work does not mean an absence of ideas; on the contrary it fertilizes them.”
“A good government is one with a duty to help everyone, to maximise his or her potential: Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and our forgotten families.We will not leave anyone behind.”
“Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.”
“I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions.”

Source : Interview on "Four Corners", ABC TV, August 28, 2006.
“Instead of applauding sex addict pastors, we need to tell them to either preach the Gospel with their lives or get out from behind that pulpit!”
“Oh, it's you," Curran's voice said quietly. "I thought it was an elephant.”
“The greatest opportunity of our lives is to wake ourselves up and get going. There is so much to be done and so little time to do it. We should impress ourselves with the seriousness of slothfulness.”
“The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people.”

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