"There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth and justice it will always mean a diminution of power and privilege. If you pursue power and privilege, it will always be at the expense of truth and justice"

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Source : Chris Hedges (2011). “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”, p.92, Hachette UK

Chris Hedges

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“A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.”
“Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.”

Source : Queen Victoria's journal entry, June 20, 1837.
“It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying”
“There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow.”
“The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy.”
“Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures.”
“I think now because of this whole social media thing, people obviously felt these things [about cultural appropriation] before, and they comment on everything.”
“Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.”

Source : Pope Paul VI (2007). “Christian Values and Virtues”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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