"The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative."

-- Vandana Shiva

#Luxury Quotes #Justice Quotes #Diversity Quotes

“Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.”
“I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.”
“Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.”

Source : "Rubinstein Was His Music" by John Guinn, Detroit Free Press, p. 8D, December 22, 1982.
“All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.”

Source : Stephen J. Gendzier, Denis Diderot (1967). “Denis Diderot's The Encyclopedia: selections ; edited and translated by Stephen J. Genzier”
“Everything is s*** because we lost.”
“Scientists have suddenly become aware of the magic quality of the Earth and the entire universe.”
“So many cowboys....so little rope.”
“There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.132, Spiegel & Grau

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