"In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they wantâ€”not only you, your whole family and all people like you."

-- Ai Weiwei

#Crush Quotes #People Quotes #Want Quotes

“The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation.”
“The greatest mistake marketers make is trying to create demand.”
“Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?”

Source : Martin E. Marty (1993). “A Cry of Absence: Reflections for the Winter of the Heart”, Harper San Francisco
“Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.”
“In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.”
“There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.”
“Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan's lies, that a person can be righteous by keeping the law. If that were true, there would have been no need for the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ.”
“We have to learn to remind the other parents who think we're being careless when we loosen our grip that we are actually trying to teach our children how to get along in the world, and that we believe this is our job. A child who can fend for himself is a lot safer than one forever coddled, because the coddled child will not have Mom or Dad around all the time, even though they act as if he will.”

Source : Lenore Skenazy (2010). “Free-Range Kids, How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry)”, p.186, John Wiley & Sons

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