"There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner."

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Source : Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.115, ReadHowYouWant.com

Shane Claiborne

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“The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.”
“I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.”
“It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.”
“When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously. I take it no less seriously than the band I was in for 15 years; it's just a new place that I'm in. I'm in the Gutter Twins right now and that's what I am. But if I'm a Twilight Singer next year, it will be with no less passion.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and call them the lying wankers that they are.”
“A person who is able to be a living centre of peace in today's world and who is able to radiate that peace powerfully, ceaselessly, will be in a position to give needy mankind the benefit it lacks most and is in greatest need of.”
“I watched all the Saw movies. They were good. But I think Freddie Krueger or Jason might be the best.”
“It has a double meaning - the superabundance also means the space around, the incomparable massiveness of things, and how there's not much of a discrepancy between the tiniest microbe and the supercluster: the small and the infinite are inseparable.”

Source : "A Flow Of Playfulness: An Interview With Laniakea". Interview with Russell Cuzner, thequietus.com. September 14, 2016.

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