519 quotes found
“Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.”
“Some folks are forced to the edges by their difference. (...) But 'tis at the edges that they find their power.”
“The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility: he can never admit an error.....The propaganda effect of infallibility, the striking success of posing as a mere interpre...”
“Oddly enough, the only person likely to be an ideal victim of complete manipulation is the President of the United States. Because of the immensity of his job, he must surround himself with adviser...”
“there is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.”
“What we call isolation in the political sphere, is called loneliness in the sphere of social intercourse.Isolation and loneliness are not the same"...."While isolation concerns only the political r...”
“Angie: "How do I pitch these ideas to her?"Mira: "From a distance, preferably wearing body armor.”
“To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.”
“An arguing couple spiraling into negativity and teetering on the brink of divorce is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war.”
“If you only have one world, one life, then however brilliant it is most of the time, you have nowhere to run when you need to escape from it for a while.”
“I'm proud to be a work in progress.”
“If there is one thing I refuse to do, it is to drown.”
“Harriet loved her new persona. As Maxine, she was courageous and accomplished, a woman of sophistication equally at home in Cannes or on the Indian subcontinent. As Maxine she didn't walk, she stro...”
“Stop telling me Im oppressed.....Im not a victim. I dont know why feminists are so hellbent on characterizing me as one.....Feminists dont speak for me. Theyre not my voice. Theyre not my represent...”
“Society doesn't owe us anything. I don't need someone to pay for my female hygiene products to feel empowered. Can we work? Yes. Can we vote? Yes. Do we have the same rights and opportunities as me...”
“Me as a woman liking myself, is an act of social defiance!”
“All those dotted lines were just the parts of the story where she would get on the ground and get her hands dirty with the mess of it all. The mess and the glory of other peoples hearts and heart s...”
“If you really want things to change, you can make them change no matter where you are.”
“Someone smells good, it automatically makes them more attractive.”
“Even though love covers all things, fear is what keeps us silent and keeps words unsaid. Fear keeps us standing in one place. Eventually, when it wins, it means we never got the courage to say what...”
