"Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution"

-- Tony Benn

#Kings Quotes #Tyrants Quotes #Revolution Quotes

“I love being able to perform in front of people. I like potentially making a difference in somebody's day or somebody's life.”
“For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that's taking something that potentially should be celebrated - a woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way - that's taking it and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist.”
“Being called Black in America is the struggle to keep us moving and breathing over bloody water. Being a Nig**r or [Ni**a] without the context of history is like drowning in bloody water, dragging down those yet knowing to swim.”
“I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.”
“Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action, turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts. The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces, although there is danger there, as in the behavior it prevents: the talks, the games, the family festivities...through which much of the child's learning takes place and through which his character is formed. Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people.”

Source : "Two worlds of childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R".
“We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.”

Source : Elizabeth Goudge (2012). “The White Witch”, p.142, Hachette UK
“You know, you don't need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose.”
“Perfect love drives out fear”

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