"Let's not forget that one poll after another clearly demonstrates that well over 50% of Russian citizens still wants both socialism and the USSR back. And the Russian government is listening."

-- Andre Vltchek

#Government Quotes #Listening Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“Who's Chernabog?" Grumbled Maybeck. Philby answered,"Only the most powerful villian Walt Disney ever created.”
“The key to controlling your own political party, so that it does not eat you alive, is to realize that while Democratic and Republican leaders differ sharply, their voters do not.”
“Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.”

Source : Letter to Horace Walpole, 25 February 1768, in H. W. Starr (ed.) 'Correspondence of Thomas Gray' (1971) vol. 3, letter 471
“It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.”

Source : Peter Kropotkin, George Woodcock (1993). “Fugitive writings”, Black Rose Books Ltd
“We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.”
“The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.”
“Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them.”
“I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.”

Source : "Feeling Our Emotions". Interview with Manuela Lenzen, www.scientificamerican.com.

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