Quotes to Live By

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world"
-Gandhi

"If it could be demonstrated on a small scale that traditional, "natural" enemies could join together for a common purpose profitable to both, then might it not inspire adversaries on a global level to look into one another's eyes, to explore avenues of mutually beneficial friendship?" -Skinny Legs and All

*Perform Gender in a Disruptive Manner*
-Professor Weadock

"...'true peace' can only be cultivated where equality and justice are at play and are perceived to be at play...when people are treated unjustly and discriminated against, they stop being at peace with themselves and one another" ~Kenyan blogger

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it" Shug,
 The Color Purple

Oh my name it is nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
-Bob Dylan

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire." -George Bernard Shaw

"Community is another word often best cut out. Not only is it usually unnecessary, it purports to convey a sense of togetherness that may well not exist. The black community means blacks, the business community means businessmen, the homosexual community means homosexuals, the intelligence community means spies, the international community, if it means anything, means other countries, aid agencies or, just occasionally, the family of nations" - Economist Writing Style Guide

"Honey, we Scottish women are short, stout and have big hips, it's just a fact of life. We are meant for two things: birthing babies and carrying firewood." -My mother, discussing our Scottish heritage

"There exists a simple dualism between insular passivity and political activism, complicated by a psychological question: does one enter [politics] to change the world, or to lose oneself in a comforting paternal embrace?" - David Caute

"Relief Work - what a bland phrase, as if it were merely another form of labor. But it wasn't. It reaffirmed the human bond. It was the marshaling of resources to organize compassion into effective action, for without action, compassion degenerated into a useless pity."-Acts of Faith

Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk without having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared. -Tupac Shakur

"Humanitarianism tempts us to hubris, to an idolatry about our intentions and routines, to the conviction that we know more than we do about what justice can be." -David Kennedy, The Dark Sides of Virtue
 

"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God"
-Kurt Vonnegut


"Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says "Oh Crap, She's up!" When you wake up say "This is the day that the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it" - From my co-worker, Ms. Carolyne Anduvate

"It is a matter of living everything.  Live the questions now.  Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, one distant day live right into the answer" - Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"...But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible.  The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory.  If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government.  There's so much talk about the system.  And so little understanding." - Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

"There have been, and may again be, great individual thinkers in a general atmosphere of mental slavery.  But there never has been, nor ever will be, in that atmosphere an intellectually active people." -John Stuart Mill


“Silence,” he said. “Nothing. One day you hear a bird. This is something. You hear a bird.” -Sanjar Umarov, Uzbek survivor of torture describing psychological impact of solitary confinement 


‎"We live in a place called 'the globe' today that has a multiplicity of experiences in it" - Elia Suleiman


To live is to dance, to dance is to live.
             --Charles Schulz [in Peanuts (Snoopy speaking)]

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