"I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded."

-- Balthus

#Thinking Quotes #Order Quotes #People Quotes

“If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.”
“Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.”
“We know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and perhaps at the end, even our civilization. This realization is traumatic and the first reaction to trauma is denial. Since there is some remaining scientific uncertainty, a natural response is to deny that change is occurring. This is natural but it is very dangerous.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make one quest: liberty and justice for all. Whether one's special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.”

Source : Carl Safina (2011). “The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World”, p.116, Macmillan
“Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.”
“I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside [...] I'm really a shy guy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“This is about unenforceable registration of weapons that violates the rights of people to own firearms.”
“I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture.”

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