"Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Powerful Quotes #War Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“How much you discipline your mind to step out of its routines and look into new ways of doing things that you haven't yet adopted, is what will determine your economic potential.”
“There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.”
“The thing I was up against in documentary films - was trying to get non-actors to convincingly play themselves in a way I'd come to know before the camera started rolling. And many non-actors can't do that convincingly, even if they just have to play themselves - they can't be naturalistic. And I would always want to recreate something I'd witnessed them do or say, and it just would be incredibly difficult because of the fact they weren't actors.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.”
“I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.”
“You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.”
“I work out. I used to go to yoga every day. Now I just incorporate yoga into my warm-up and my cool down. I drink a lot of water, and I go to therapy.”

Source : "True Blood Actress Adina Porter: On Grief, Dedication, and Balance". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century.”

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