"Here in the U.S. we do have a problem with a president Donald Trump who uses language in two distinctly destructive ways. One is to lie, and to use words to mean their opposite. Like, when he calls the Russian investigation a "witch hunt." He can't call it a "witch hunt" because a witch hunt is something that a powerful person does against a powerless person. The most powerful man in the world cannot be the object of a witch hunt."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Masha Gessen

#Powerful Quotes #Lying Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.”
“Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.”
“The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.”

Source : Thomas Berry, Mary Evelyn Tucker (2009). “The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-first Century”, p.145, Columbia University Press
“Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.”

Source : Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.288, Springer Science & Business Media
“People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.”
“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”

Source : "A Confederacy of Dunces".
“Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.”
“Working out makes me feel strong and energized every time. It's my therapy for my mind and my body.”

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