#iona

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones. ↗

— Bill Forsyth

#business #decisions #emotional #instead #interesting

Christ does not give us permission to curse the name of men he has died to save. We are to treat all men with respect and kindness whatever we may think of their politics. Those who busy themselves spewing hatred upon evil men may soon find to their surprise, that they themselves are becoming more and more infused with the very evil they once so detested. (from Call a Man a Fool....) ↗

— Tom King

#business

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#earth #effects #how #national #national security

I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#helping-others #inspirational #personal-responsibility #change

I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#across #always #artistic #board #clues

People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that. ↗

— Jonathan Frid

#commercial #contract #getting #gotten #had

Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood. ↗

— Janet Frame

#could #deciding #divisions #easy #fashionable

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation. ↗

— Paulo Freire

#awareness #critical #essential #increasingly #oppressed

Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies. ↗

— Fred W. Friendly

#bellies #commodity #instead #just #like

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#frame #only #reference #sanity #thought