"The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests."

-- Breyten Breytenbach

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“Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.”
“I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.”
“The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.”
“Being so pathetic, I don't read. I just ... do things - writing out interviews you can't read, on pictures of footprints and things like that. I kind of like the idea of nailing the thing down and not really showing too much about it. There's just so much you can take for collage nowadays.”
“Iran can recruit hundreds of suicide bombers a day. Suicide is an invincible weapon. Suicide bombers in this land showed us the way, and they enlighten our future.”
“A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.”

Source : Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”
“I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionistâ€¦I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, â€œMy god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here!”
“Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?”

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