Quotes
Authors
Angela Davis

"We donâ€™t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object- we donâ€™t think about the relations that that object embodies- and were important to the production of that object, whether itâ€™s our food or our clothes or our iPads or all the materials we use to acquire an education at an institution like this. That would really be revolutionary to develop a habit of imagining the human relations and non-human relations behind all of the objects that constitute our environment."

-- Angela Davis

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“To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who seem to have accrued so much more knowledge or expertise or certainty about who they are and the jobs they do. I just marvel at it.”
“Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?”
“When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as it is, and some of it was unpleasant. I gradually moved away from that.”
“How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.”
“No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or enlightened you think you are, how you eat tells all.”
“If it's the truth you seek, then darling love you'll find.”
“At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.”

Source : Arthur Frommer, Pauline Frommer (1996). “Arthur Frommer's New World of Travel”, Frommer's
“The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.”

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