A J Muste Quotes

#1. If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.

Patrick Ness

#2. In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

John McCarthy

#3. So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.

Herbie Hancock

#4. The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

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#5. I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.

Rachel Sklar

#6. Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.

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#7. No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.

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#8. If I can't love Hitler, I can't love at all.

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#9. When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility.

Thomas Piketty

#10. I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

Martin Freeman

#11. We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

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#12. Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.

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#13. That's where we find ourselves today. In a meeting with people who have no idea how to do our jobs, yet consistently find it their place to tell us how to do it. It's enough to drive any designer insane.

Tom Greever

#14. There's no fun in a bag if it's not kicked around so that it looks as if the cat's been sitting on it - and it usually has. The cat may even be in it! I always put on stickers and beads and worry beads. You can get them from Greece, Israel, Palestine - from anywhere in the world.

Jane Birkin

#15. Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

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#16. In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

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#17. In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

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#18. The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

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#19. Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

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#20. The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing. But the roots are there.

Russell Peters