#lit

Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go. ↗

— Peter Prange

#politics #leadership

Africa must remain on the path of democracy. But democracy MUST also remain about the PEOPLE, not about power ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#leadership #military #war #leadership

The challenge has always been that "good people" don't know how to win elections ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#government #leadership #politics #leadership

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#elite #elitism #elitist #voter #voting

Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world's greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding ↗

— Saul Williams

#poetry #spirituality #life

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#nobility #life

You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is. ↗

— Red Haircrow

#life-lessons #reality #life

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#life #reality #life

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away? ↗

— Voltaire

#life

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#life #morality #religion #life