"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Change Quotes #People Quotes #Silence Quotes

“America is the one place in the world where I just innately understood [that] South Africa and the United States of America have a very similar history. It's different timelines, but the directions we've taken and the consequences - dealing with the aftermath of what we consider to be democracy, and realizing that freedom is just the beginning of the conversation, that's something I've learned.”
“I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.”
“And again, the political economy in that particular environment means that, if my attraction ever coheres as a thought at all, it's never going to be verbalized, because that will mess up the education environment, it will mess up everything. You cannot claim to be doing good if you're moving in that direction.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“See, this was the thing with Qhuinn. He could be out there and he could let his edge get away from him, but he always came back and made you feel like you were the single most important person in the world to him and that he was truly sorry for hurting your feelings.”
“The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.”

Source : Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.50, Univ of California Press
“Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't. And the ones with one are divided into those who will act on their conscience and those who won't. Those who will are, I'm afraid, the smallest category. They will *jeito*. It's Brazilian Portuguese. It means to find a way to get something done, no matter what the obstacles.”
“Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.”
“If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.”

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