"Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion."

-- Christopher Lasch

#Play Quotes #Sea Quotes #People Quotes

“Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.”
“Christ sent me to preach the gospel and he will look after the results.”
“I don't want to leave skiing early. I want to feel like I've done everything I can do.”
“Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want to hold forever, tighter and tighter, whether he's close or far away, someone who becomes dearer to you the more you've sacrificed for his sake.”
“It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.”
“Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.”
“we don't have to agree with each other in order to think well together. There is no need for us to be joined at the head. We are joined by our human hearts.”

Source : Margaret J. Wheatley (2002). “Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future”, p.37, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“A good piece of art should make a revolution inside you.”

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