"It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts."

-- John le Carre

#Lonely Quotes #Vanity Quotes #People Quotes

“The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.”
“In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American -- on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.”
“An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.”
“There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.”
“The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture. If you do not manage culture, it manages you, and you may not even be aware of the extent to which this is happening.”
“The complex ways in which we produce and reproduce the world in technologically developed societies involves the ways in which we separate ourselves into public and private persons, producing and consuming persons and so on, and the ways in which we as people negotiate and cope with those divisions. Stars are about all that, and are one of the most significant ways we have for making sense of it all. That is why they matter to us, and why they are worth thinking about.”
“The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it is a word created in the wake of the Shoah in Europe to describe what happens when a people are targeted by a government for extermination, as were the Jews of Europe, and which is the term used in the most important international law related to concerned Indigenous Peoples, as the only international human rights law that pertains specifically to collectivities of people rather than individuals.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.”

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