"But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power."

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Source : Howard Zinn (2012). “Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009”, p.299, Haymarket Books

Howard Zinn

#People Quotes #Remember Quotes #Obedience Quotes

“Every really good creative person in advertising has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject he could not easily get interested in...Second, he was an extensive browser in all sorts of fields of information. For it is with the advertising man as with the cow: no browsing, no milk.”
“There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.”
“I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.”
“When you're not in love, when you don't have love, everybody you know falls in love on like the same day - even Karen the douche bag falls in love! Even retarded people in your neighborhood are getting married on their front lawn as you drive by, â€œWhat? The 'tardsÂ just got married on their lawn. That's great! I have nobody, and the 'tards just committed to each other for a lifetime of 'tardinessâ€.”

Source : "Dane Cook: A Stand-Up Comic on the Rise". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. December 1, 2005.
“And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.”
“Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.”
“Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes drift toward the morning light of remembrance.”

Source : Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.8, Canongate Books
“Business is tough; you need tough guys.”

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