"At what point do [progressives] take off our partisan blinders and start wondering whether a very powerful faction of Democrats actually continues to SUPPORT President Bush and the War in Iraq?"

-- David Sirota

#Powerful Quotes #War Quotes #Iraq Quotes

“We feel the breath of the wind upon our cheeks, we see the dust and the leaves blowing before the wind, we see the vessels at sea driven swiftly towards their ports; but the wind itself remains invisible. Just so with the Spirit; we feel His breath upon our souls, we see the mighty things He does, but Himself we do not see. He is invisible, but He is real and perceptible.”
“The difference is that was then, this is now.”

Source : Title of book (1971)
“It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.”

Source : Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.144, Penguin
“The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not exercising truemasculinity, but a grotesque exaggeration of what they think a man is. When we see men overdoing their masculinity, we can assume that they haven't been raised by men, that they have taken cultural stereotypes literally, and that they are scared they aren't being manly enough.”
“The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.”
“I'm really lucky, because I've been able to go places and meet people you can only dream of.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.”
“If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their historical youth, when their state of development was comparable to our own at the present time. Otherwise we should behave like boys who try to copy the imposing manners of full-grown men without understanding their raison d' Ãªtre, also without seeing that in development one cannot jump over intermediate and preliminary phases.”

Source : "Gestalt Psychology". Book by Wolfgang Köhler, p. 32, 1930.

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