"There are several dozen political prisoners in Russia. When I cite that number people are often very surprised. They often think there are more. Well - there are hundreds of thousands of people who haven't had a fair trial, who are victims of the political system. But in the Amnesty International sense of the word, most of them are not political prisoners because they are not going to prison for protesting."

-- Masha Gessen

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Political Quotes

“Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.”
“The words you say to yourself create your self image.”

Source : Rhonda Britten (2003). “Fearless Loving”, p.49, Penguin
“And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.”
“Yoga is the only exercise on this planet from which you gain energy instead of burning energy.”

Source : Bikram Choudhury, Bonnie Jones Reynolds, Julian Goldstein (2000). “Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class”, Tarcher
“The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsible export of nuclear and missile technology... Such forbearance on our part might have made sense during the Cold War when China was the counterweight to Soviet power. It makes no sense to play the China card now when our opponents have thrown in their hand.”
“The more you learn, the less you fear.”
“You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.”
“Come on sempai, would you please stop growing mushrooms in other people's closets? -Haruhi”

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