Parker Palmer Quotes

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

Parker Palmer

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ControlPoliticalAcademicAnalysis

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

Andrea Dworkin

IntelligenceChildBodyNothingLike

To Barack Obama, if you believe in traditional marriage, you are a homophobe. If you believe men shouldn't go into women's bathrooms and showers, you are a bigot. If you believe the unborn have a right to life, you must hate women.

Robert Jeffress

LifeMarriageWomenHateMenYou

By the '50s and '60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered to characterize the Japanese enemy as particularly evil; in fact, they never bothered to characterize him at all.

Stephen Hunter

WarEvilEnemyMoviesBecomeNever

My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.

David Steinberg

FatherCanadaLittleLeftRabbiHad

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

Christopher Monckton

MyselfSayYearsShouldMany

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

Clarence Darrow

HistoryWrongHistory Repeats Itself

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

Alice Foote MacDougall

LifeFoodPainSpiritualPoverty

When a real artist creates something, it has to be a necessity, the only way he can say something.

Sylvie Guillem

ArtistSayWayRealSomethingOnly

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.

Scott Bakula

BusinessAgeGreatRetirementShow

Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines.

Richard Flanagan

TruthMindLateNothingMoreSocial

Larry Kramer wisely realized so early on that to change the world, people have to know you. If they know you and see that we are all the same - that we all have normal hearts - that's the first step. I'm both amazed at the progress and amazed at how far we have to go.

Ryan Murphy

ChangeChange The WorldProgressStep

We all recognize that Colorado and our nation have a long and storied tradition of gun ownership for hunting, outdoor recreation and self-defense. However, I am not convinced that combat weapons are necessarily part of that heritage.

Mark Udall

I AmGunOwnershipLongHeritage

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