#under

We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#hope #interest #keep #lies #men

Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#basis #democracy #ideals #moral #once

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#need #only #the only thing #thing #understand

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#did #founders #george #i #iii

It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#corporate #fascinating #grips #growing #hear

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#apologists #ask #centuries #culture #degrades

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#films #i #i love #laboratory #like

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#became #discovery #i #interested #islamic

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#find #fully #i #idea #intuition

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear. ↗

— Randy Newman

#dinner #found #had #i #madonna