"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."

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Source : American journalist, 1973.

I. F. Stone

#Life Quotes #Running Quotes #Freedom Quotes

“Every dance is and gives ecstasy.”
“It takes a lot more courage to let something go than it does to hang on to it, trying to make it better. Letting go doesn't mean ignoring a situation. Letting go means accepting what is, exactly as it is, without fear, resistance, or a struggle for control.”
“If we do not share our stories and shine a light on inequities, things will not change.”

Source : Ellen Pao (2017). “Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change”, p.227, Spiegel & Grau
“We may be unable to maintain even a semblance of order in our urban schools, which increasingly resemble happy hour in Beirut. But, hallelujah, we sure know how to protect kids from God.”

Source : Don Feder (1993). “A Jewish conservative looks at pagan America”, Vital Issues Pr
“Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.”
“Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general, why not think that a new type of revolution is in the course of becoming possible, and that all kinds of mutating, living machines conduct wars, are combined and trace out a plane of consistance which undermines the plane of organization of the World and the States?”
“I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can find at a secondhand costume shop to a Helmut Lang store, it doesn't matter - just unique stuff.”
“The evidence about Saddam having actual biological and chemical weapons, as opposed to the capability to develop them, has turned out to be wrong. I acknowledge that and accept it. I simply point out, such evidence was agreed by the whole international community, not least because Saddam had used such weapons against his own people and neighbouring countries.”

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