Petra Kelly Quotes

The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth.

Petra Kelly

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• In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Gay
  • Sad
  • Down

• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Royalty
  • Were
  • Descended

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.

  

  Omri Katz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• 'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Work
  • Past
  • Present

• You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Walk
  • Winner
  • Edge

• Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Important
  • Movement
  • Leaders

• We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Want
  • Hand
  • Feel

• For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Me
  • Blue
  • Name

• Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Secret
  • Events

• The democratization of genius is made possible by the fact while one can quarrel with judgments, one cannot quarrel with feelings.

  

  Daniel Bell

• We understand instinctively that being a prodigy wasn’t Wayne Gretzky’s platform for a lifetime’s achievement; it marked the possibility of a highly specific, highly term-limited kind of performance.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Achievement

• Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law. And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Life
  • Today
  • Society

• Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Bitter

• Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as'Unix'.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Up

• No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Great
  • Together
  • True

• I believe in the ability of focusing strongly in something, then you are able to extract even more out of it. It's been like this all my life, and it's been only a question of improving it, and learning more and more and there is almost no end. As you go through you just keep finding more and more. It's very interesting, it's fascinating.

  

  Ayrton Senna
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Interesting

• In America, we have a two-party system, and the American Constitution is a piece of brilliance, but they did not know when they set it up we would just have a two-party system. It just so happens that our electorate pushed towards the two-party system because it's a very good way to govern.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Up
  • Good
  • American

• If you express yourself too much. you're overacting; if you underplay it too much, it can come across as wooden.

  

  Ben Hardy

• God intended Earth. God intended the waters. God intended you and me. We were created in the image and the likeness of God; we are holograms, if you will. So the power, the presence, the energy is within you and me. The energy of God, as life, is within each of us.

  

  Mary Manin Morrissey
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

  

  Jim Lovell
  • Earth

• I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Happy

• The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth.

  

  Petra Kelly
  • Earth
  • Democracy
  • United