"If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We're not the victims of the world we see, we're the victims of the way we see the world. This is the essence of Compassionate Listening: seeing the person next to you as a part of yourself."

-- Dennis Kucinich

#Essence Quotes #Listening Quotes #Way Quotes

“...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)”
“If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.”
“Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.”
“To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.”
“I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?”

Source : Jack Levine, Milton Wolf Brown (1989). “Jack Levine”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
“Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.”
“Let my hands be of service to people. Let me earn wisdom through my hands. Let my hands do good work”
“He [Lyndon Johnson] hated the war. He hated having anybody put in harm away. But he believed that what we were doing is what we had to do for our commitments with SEATO, for many reasons. And he was carrying forth a policy that he had inherited. And he tried and got us to the peace table in 1968.”

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