"The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight."

-- Michael Lind

#Pain Quotes #Believe Quotes #Sight Quotes

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
“Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen.”
“The suspicious parent makes an artful child.”
“I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.”
“It is a bad sign when a new-born babe has not lungs enough to make itself heard over the whole house. It is equally a bad symptom when the new convert is born dumb, and cannot find his voice to praise God audibly.”
“I think thatâ€™s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That itâ€™s not a secret at all; men just donâ€™t know how to listen.”
“There are no musically untalented people.”

Source : "The Audience is Present". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 9, 2015.
“The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.”

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