"The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe."

-- Sherman Alexie

#Responsibility Quotes #Moral Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Yup, believe it: I was born on March 28, yet my name is April.”
“If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.”
“The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.”
“I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.”
“In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried.”
“When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!”
“When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.”
“The only important thing in this life is to figure out how to use the experiences that you have to make the world a better place.”

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