"The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world."

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Israel Quotes #Mind Blowing Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“Hill sprints are good for everyone!”
“Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.”
“The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.”
“I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.”

Source : "A Man Called (Self) Destruction — The Life and Music of Alex Chilton" by Binky Philips, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2014.
“When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.”

Source : "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, p. 93, 'Quotes', 1990.
“Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you”

Source : Stephen Vizinczey “Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)”, stephenvizinczey.com
“I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.”
“With touring, it's like you're in this car and you've got this much fuel. You know that if you drive carefully and take your time and search your way so that you don't take the wrong turn, you'll have exactly enough fuel to go where you're going. You are empowered as you go by your audience.”

Source : "Dead Can Dance". Interview with Ned Raggett, pitchfork.com. August 7, 2012.

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