"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience."

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Howard Zinn

#Problem Quotes #Obedience Quotes #Civil Disobedience Quotes

“It's nice getting to play a different version of yourself. You sign on for a show and think you're just going to play one character for however many years, so it's nice, for an actor, to have a little bit of fun.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, in the words of the collect, and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?”
“I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.”
“We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely.”

Source : "The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space". Book by Gerard K. O'Neill, 1976.
“I'm not trying to plant the seed that I'm the most fashionable NBA guy - of course, I think that in my own mind.”
“When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere”
“How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.”
“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”

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