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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.


Paulo Freire


#conflict #hands #means #neutral #powerful

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.


Hermann Hesse


#knowledge #siddhartha #unity #world #unity

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.


Greta Garbo


#cheapen #heart #inside #joys #many

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.


Charlie Parker


#chords #could #harmonic #heard #high

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS


Abraham Lincoln


#angels #civil-war #democracy #destiny #determination

I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of one of my early books. (At least on that occasion I lived up to the title by ridiculing the word in my introduction to the book's first chapter.) It is actually a pity that our culture doesn't have a good vernacular word for an oppositionist or even for someone who tries to do his own thinking: the word 'dissident' can't be self-conferred because it is really a title of honor that has to be won or earned, while terms like 'gadfly' or 'maverick' are somehow trivial and condescending as well as over-full of self-regard. And I've lost count of the number of memoirs by old comrades or ex-comrades that have titles like 'Against the Stream,' 'Against the Current,' 'Minority of One,' 'Breaking Ranks' and so forth—all of them lending point to Harold Rosenberg's withering remark about 'the herd of independent minds.' Even when I was quite young I disliked being called a 'rebel': it seemed to make the patronizing suggestion that 'questioning authority' was part of a 'phase' through which I would naturally go. On the contrary, I was a relatively well-behaved and well-mannered boy, and chose my battles with some deliberation rather than just thinking with my hormones.


Christopher Hitchens


#contrarianism #dissent #dissidents #free-thought #harold-rosenberg

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated.


Louis Stokes


#crime #entity #findings #having #however

But Above all things truth beareth away the victory


Plato


#victory

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.


Eudora Welty


#became #becoming #first #found #i

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!


Anne Frank


#everyone #good #good news #great #him