"Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence."

-- Vandana Shiva

#Violence Quotes #Needs Quotes #Patterns Quotes

“If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?”
“I remember reading this thing that Elizabeth Taylor wrote. She had her first kiss in character. On a movie set. It really struck me. I don't know how or why, but I had this sense that if I wasn't really careful, that could be me: that my first kiss could be in somebody else's clothes. And my experiences could all belong to someone else.”
“Virtue knows no color line ...”
“My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.”
“Our Father awaits us with great zeal and desire, and with love He will see us returning from afar, and He will look upon us with compassionate eyes, and we shall be dear to Him, and He will fall on our neck running and embrace us and kiss us with His Holy Love. He will not reproach us, and He will no longer remember our sins and iniquities, and all the holy angles and all His elect will begin to rejoice over us.”
“Anarchists generally make use if the word "State" to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, etc., by means of which management of their own affairs, the guidance of their personal conduct, and the care of ensuring their own safety are taken from the people and confided to certain individuals, and these, whether by usurpation or delegation, are invested with the right to make laws over and for all, and to constrain the public to respect them, making use of the collective force of the community to this end.”

Source : "Anarchy". Pamphlet by Errico Malatesta, www.marxists.org. 1891.
“If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig.”
“Time is a river rolling into nowhere. We must live while we can, and we'll drink our cup of laughter.”

Source : Song: The Finer Things, Album: Back in the High Life

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