"Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few."

-- Helen Gahagan Douglas

#Powerful Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose--a gleaming, round saucer--over the calm surface of lakes, that tranquilly beamed down on the rooftops of fast-asleep houses. The same moon that brought the high tide to shore, that softly shone on the fur of animals and enveloped and protected travelers at night. The moon that, as a crescent, shaved slivers from the soul--or, as a new moon, silently bathed the earth in its own loneliness. THAT moon.”
“Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia.”
“Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.”
“Thatâ€™s what you taught me - we donâ€™t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.”
“I got a fascination with food.”
“All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had searched in superstition... But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so... tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me... I saw that those simple things might be true... I never wanted to believe in them because it was better to fight my own battle. You can believe in something without compromising the burden of your own existence.”
“Make no mistake about those who call themselves anti Zionist are anti Semitic.”
“Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.”

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