"It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution."

-- Le Corbusier

#Roots Quotes #Unrest Quotes #Today Quotes

“Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.”

Source : Elizabeth Fishel (1997). “Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties”, Red Wheel
“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.”

Source : C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.197, Simon and Schuster
“My music is L-O-V-E because it's a gift, and you only give something when you feel it deeply.”
“In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow!”
“In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors had a right to argue that they felt unsafe because of my presence in the building.”
“And above all, what does being liberal have to do with opposing, or, uh, supporting the war against terror? Our enemies in the war against terror are so anti-liberal that you would think it would be liberals leaping to protect the world from these monstrous ideologies.”
“I smiled, danced and cried my way out.”
“I try to listen to stuff that makes me happy for other reasons, rather than being musically inspiring.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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