"We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level."

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Spike Lee

#Levels Quotes #Earth Quotes #Violence Quotes

“A fence to wisdom is silence.”

Source : Pirkei Avot, 3:17,
“We who are privileged to be in these chambers today can view the challenges we face as opportunities, not as reasons for despair. We can do this only if we blend our independent spirits in terms of reverence for the life and respect for nature. Each of you might suggest different words, but our goal certainly is the same: a better Oregon.”
“They, the conservatives, are the real outsides, they tell us, gazing with disgust upon the ludicrous manners of the high and mighty. Or, they tell us, they are rough-and-ready proles, laughing along with us at the efforts of our social "betters" to reform and improve us. That they are often, in fact, people of privilege doing their utmost to boost the fortunes of a political party that is the traditional tool of the privileged is a contradiction that does not trouble them.”

Source : "What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America". Book by Thomas Frank, June1, 2004.
“God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the wrong instruments are being used for the job.”

Source : John Bertram Phillips, Denis Duncan (1978). “365 meditations by J.B. Phillips for this day”
“I always see nice images like that but I don't know what to do with them. I guess you share them with someone. Or you write them down in a poem. I had so many of those little images, but I never shared them or wrote any of them down.”
“Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.”
“There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.”
“We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.”

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