#transform

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

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Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror. ↗

— Michael Johns

#apparatus #created #forms #history #into

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#enemy #force #friend #into #love

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it. ↗

— Allen Klein

#begin #demise #inevitability #lighten #once

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#art #commentary #creates #experience #flow

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#into #kiss #marriage #miracle #pleasure

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#capacity #empathize #enables #envision #experiences

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. ↗

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

#agreement #ask #assumptions #avoid #clearly

I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#concert #electricity #endings #fifteen #fried

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day. ↗

— Arthur Scargill

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