"I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist."

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Elfriede Jelinek

#Fighting Quotes #Men Quotes #Sexist Quotes

“Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.”
“The life and fellowship of the church is to be a foretaste of life in the Kingdom of God.”
“He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.”

Source : Thomas Hood (1842). “The Comic Annual”, p.60
“To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline and training is all about.”

Source : James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.94, Dell
“The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.”
“Actors are very generous.”
“The only way I can experience my life as meaningless is to work as hard as I possibly can to tell myself it has no meaning. At a deeper level of reality, my life can't help but have meaning, because everything is continually unfolding, and I am connected into that unfolding in ways that I can't even imagine.”

Source : Joseph Jaworski, Peter Senge (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.11, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“Education is in danger of becoming a religion based on fear; its doctrine is to compete. Our children are being led to believe that they are doomed to failure in a world which has room only for those at the top.”

Source : Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum

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