"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."

-- Robert Kennedy

#Change Quotes #Courage Quotes #Creativity Quotes

“Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.”
“If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.”
“I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it.”

Source : Edward Thomas (2011). “Selected Poems of Edward Thomas”, p.100, Faber & Faber
“Ive got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.”
“I would say that the powerful, revolutionary thing about Jesus' message is that he says, 'What do you do with the people that aren't like you? What do you do with the Other? What do you do with the person that's hardest to love?' . . . That's the measure of a good religion, is - you can love the people who are just like you; that's kind of easy. So what Jesus does is takes the question and talks about fruit. He's interested in what you actually produce. And that's a different discussion. How do we love the people in the world that are least like us?”

Source : "Rob Bell Comes Out for Marriage Equality" by Greg Carey, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2013.
“I'm afraid I don't believe there is such a thing as blasphemy, just outrage from those insecure in their own faith.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 27, 2012
“Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.”

Source : "Timothy Geithner’s Legacy". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. January 24, 2013.
“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.”

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