"If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker."

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Dora Russell

#Children Quotes #Adults Quotes #Use Quotes

“And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”
“Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!”
“Popular journalists resort to the name Nixon to galvanize feelings that remain at rest even when the name Stalin is mentioned.”
“I think actors make the mistake of finding their little niche in the business and once they try to do something a little darker, boom, they get slapped across the face for it, so they go back to what they did before.”
“Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog.”
“It sounds formulaic now, but at the time, I was interested in the difference between the thing and the representation of the idea of the thing - the space between the two.”
“When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.”
“I've never made a secret of my homosexuality.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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