Top 23 Quotes About Being Displaced
#1. For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life.
Mary Livermore
#2. The way people are being displaced, who can stop the arrival of Maoism?
V. P. Singh
#4. I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.
Rumi
#5. if you continue to write fiction, every character you create is partly you.
Stephen King
#6. Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#7. Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.
Wendell Berry
#8. I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.
Oscar Wilde
#9. Look in the mirror, Brooke. You're a mess, but you're a fucking gorgeous mess. There's a reason I didn't want to stay, and that's it. Don't blame me for waking up with a raging hard-on when you've been lying next to me in bed for six hours." I
Emma Hart
#10. I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've worked hard at being the hero of my own life. But every time I checked the register of displaced persons, I was still on it. I didn't know how to belong. Longing? Yes. Belonging? No.
Jeanette Winterson
#11. Common sense is a very poor guide to scientific insight for it represents cultural prejudice more often than it reflects the native honesty of a small boy before the naked emperor.
Stephen Jay Gould
#12. You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?
Fannie Flagg
#13. The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.
Julian Assange
#14. The authorities make them hate him. Otsu, these people are simple. They're afraid of the government, so afraid that if it so decrees, they'll drive away their fellow villagers, even their own kin.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#15. Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#16. The only reason that 5 billion people have any food is that we've displaced vast numbers of species and we're eating fossil fuel. The nitrogen for this food is being manufactured from gas and oil, and we are on a crash course with reality.
Anonymous
#17. It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
Arthur Erickson
#18. We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted.
Marianne Williamson
#20. Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home.
Jonas Mekas
#21. Our nation & our children must come to learn that nothing in life will ever be solved by violence. It will just help breed more!
Timothy Pina
#22. Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.
Sylvia Earle
#23. I guess I'm a real fan of older music, and that's what shaped my taste and the way I sing.
Jessie Ware
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