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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films. ↗

— Oskar Werner

#films #i #married #mistress #theater

I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress. ↗

— Oskar Werner

#films #i #i am #married #mistress

The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings. ↗

— George Monbiot

#energy #environment #greed #oil #age

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection. ↗

— Morris West

#despair #fact #had #impossible #know

King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens. ↗

— Cornel West

#crisis #everyday #everyday people #fundamental #king

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it. ↗

— Cornel West

#got #just #opinion #rather #reflects

Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is. ↗

— Cornel West

#care #color #i #look #president

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it. ↗

— Cornel West

#concern #justice #love #margins #poor

I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people. ↗

— Morris West

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If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. ↗

— Morris West

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