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		We have to create conditions where people feel safe to feel and to care. That goes against a lot of our programming about how to make something change in the world. Sometimes you can pressure people into changing, you can force them, but the powers-that-be have more force than we do. I don't think we're going to win in a contest of force. I think we need to induce a change of heart. The narrative of "us versus them" is ultimately part of the problem. Traditional activism, which is about overcoming the latest bad guy, isn't deep enough. It just brings us another version of the same.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charles Eisenstein 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Federico Fellini 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Madeleine Albright 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Said Sayrafiezadeh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Randy Newman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Amiel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Salman Rushdie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		It is very natural that clever young men should be rather odious. They are conscious of gifts that they do not know how to use. They are exasperated with the world that will not recognize their merit. They have something to give, and no hand is stretched out to receive it. They are impatient for the fame they regard as their due. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				W. Somerset Maugham 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won’t need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack McDevitt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Avoidance of a global war of civilizations depends on world leaders accepting and cooperating to maintain the multicivilizational character of global politics. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samuel P. Huntington 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		All the ousted regimes, as well as the oppressive regimes that have hung on during the Arab Spring, have now blessed Egypt's coup...a blossoming democracy in Cairo can easily spread throughout the Arab world...Those who support freedom and democracy in the Middle East, however, should resist the new tyranny in Cairo with all their might. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tawakkol Karman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tupac Shakur 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Billie Joe Armstrong 
			 
			
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		In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticise, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is acquainted, this freedom belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bertrand Russell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If I wanted to write a bunch of comics about 50-year-olds sitting around having a conversation about politics, that would be realistic, but it'd be the dullest comic in the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mark Waid 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jim Evans 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Naomi Klein 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Historically - when you look at how America has evolved, typically we make progress on race relations in fits and starts. We make some progress, and then there's maybe some slippage. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barack Obama 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We have to create conditions where people feel safe to feel and to care. That goes against a lot of our programming about how to make something change in the world. Sometimes you can pressure people into changing, you can force them, but the powers-that-be have more force than we do. I don't think we're going to win in a contest of force. I think we need to induce a change of heart. The narrative of "us versus them" is ultimately part of the problem. Traditional activism, which is about overcoming the latest bad guy, isn't deep enough. It just brings us another version of the same. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charles Eisenstein