"What drives me is a sense of urgency. We live in frightening times. Progress towards gender equality and vital battles to end discrimination on grounds such as race, age, sexuality and disability are stalling and in some places, reversing. This is happening because of the collapse of trust in nearly all public institutions, and in particular in politics and media, and the inescapable feeling that the current system isn't working for most people."

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Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

Catherine Mayer

#Media Quotes #Race Quotes #People Quotes

“Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me...”
“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”
“All of a sudden, space isn't friendly. All of a sudden, it's a place where people can die. . . . Many more people are going to die. But we can't explore space if the requirement is that there be no casualties; we can't do anything if the requirement is that there be no casualties.”
“This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by such things in a certain order of mind. His phrases about "dire calamity" and so on mean nothing; the whole tenor of his writing proves that he represents, and consciously, one of the forces which go to bring war about; his part in the business is a fluent irresponsibility, which casts scorn on all who reluct at the "inevitable." Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.”
“How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything.”

Source : Mike Mason (2011). “Practicing the Presence of People: How We Learn to Love”, p.101, WaterBrook
“Everything has positive and negative consequences.”

Source : "A Serious Farrah Fawcett Takes Control In 'extremities'" by Stephen Farber, www.nytimes.com. 1986.
“It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.”
“Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad.”

Source : Gary Smalley, John T. Trent (1992). “The Language of Love”

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