"Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others."

-- Sheila Rowbotham

#People Quotes #Choices Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.”
“With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke”
“The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that”
“You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.”
“The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.”
“Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.”
“We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.”

Source : William Robertson Smith (2004). “The Prophets of Israel: and their place in history to the close of the Eighth Century B.C.”, p.20, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“There is one rule for the G-7 (richest countries) and another for the South. The G-7 now preaches open economies and liberalization, as well as 'good governance' and 'transparency'. Yet none of these things was conspicuous when the West grew rich.”

Source : Jeremy Seabrook (2003). “The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty”, p.70, Verso

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