"The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces donâ€™t stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying."

-- Gilles Deleuze

#People Quotes #Silence Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“Every time I get sexually harassed, I'm supposed to turn around and yell at the person, but there are safety issues. Sometimes the best thing you can do it just walk right past that person and have a great day. But sometimes you feel like you really need to say something.”

Source : "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.
“The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female.”

Source : Andrew Comiskey (2009). “Strength in Weakness: Healing Sexual and Relational Brokenness”, p.25, InterVarsity Press
“These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality.”
“I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.”

Source : FaceBook post by Yakov Smirnoff from Oct 29, 2014
“I only wore makeup when I went onstage.”
“Those who are God's without reserve are, in every sense, content”
“I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression.”
“The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.”

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