"When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little earlier, but they give up their imagination, their creativity, their will to work hard and to suffer for what they believe is right."

-- Cesar Chavez

#Giving Up Quotes #Believe Quotes #Fall Quotes

“Saddam Hussein is not the only deranged dictator who is willing to deprive his people in order to acquire weapons of mass destruction.”
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”
“I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.”
“This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when one story too many is added.”
“God is in the water of the lake; he is also in the cracked bed of the lake when the lake has dried up. God is in the abundant harvest; he is also in the famine that occurs when the harvest fails. God is in the lightning; he is also in the darkness when the lightning has faded.”
“I have to be careful not to visit one place right after the other and write one book after the other. Because I fear writing the same book all over again. That's why I am taking a break and doing something different this time.”
“if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.”

Source : Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.121, Simon and Schuster
“I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!”

Source : Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.137, Univ of California Press

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