"War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly than ever, but it is still somehow manages to gather and puddle in certain places, for certain people rather then others."

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Source : "The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age". Book by Mark Kingwell, 2000.

Mark Kingwell

#Memories Quotes #War Quotes #People Quotes

“Never underestimate the power of a good story.”
“More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.”
“Sex workers are the last women police stand in to protect. Sex workers are the last people that room is made for in many ways. You get a different kind of feminism if you put people at the margins at the center. It's a recently resonant lesson, but black feminists have been saying this for decades. Now when I talk to people engaged in sex workers' rights advocacy and people who identify as intersectional feminists, this is the air they breathe. We can't just make feminism about improving the lives of all women. Because there is no such thing as all women and universal female experience.”
“You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, when occasion serves.”

Source : "The Plays".
“The most important things cannot be spoken; thatâ€™s why thereâ€™s music.”

Source : "The Death of Yesterday" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2005.
“As opposed to coming up with something fantastic and trying to sell it to a studio, now all you have to do is get people to believe what you believe.”
“Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.”
“Even when you are feeling down, you have to live your life positively, that way, happy days and happy feelings will come to you some day.”

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