#viva

You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#because #deep #deep down #down #fear

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#been #life #mere #more #our

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#ago #am #colleagues #envious #ever

Public truth telling is a form of recovery, especially when combined with social action. Sharing traumatic experiences with others enables victims to reconstruct repressed memory, mourn loss, and master helplessness, which is trauma's essential insult. And, by facilitating reconnection to ordinary life, the public testimony helps survivors restore basic trust in a just world and overcome feelings of isolation. But the talking cure is predicated on the existence of a community willing to bear witness. 'Recovery can take place only within the context of relationships,' write Judith Herman. 'It cannot occur in isolation. ↗

— Lawrence N. Powell

#healing #holocaust #recovery #relationships #survival

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#either #equate #extended #intrinsic #look

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. ↗

— Edward Everett Hale

#doctors #ever #exquisite #form #hypocrites

No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points, which if followed into actual experience for only a moment are quickly left behind. Imperialism consolidated the mixture of cultures and identities on a global scale. But its worst and most paradoxical gift was to allow people to believe that they were only, mainly, exclusively, white, or Black, or Western, or Oriental. Yet just as human beings make their own history, they also make their cultures and ethnic identities. No one can deny the persisting continuities of long traditions, sustained habitations, national languages, and cultural geographies, but there seems no reason except fear and prejudice to keep insisting on their separation and distinctiveness, as if that was all human life was about. Survival in fact is about the connections between things; in Eliot’s phrase, reality cannot be deprived of the “other echoes [that] inhabit the garden.” It is more rewarding - and more difficult - to think concretely and sympathetically, contrapuntally, about others than only about “us.” But this also means not trying to rule others, not trying to classify them or put them in hierarchies, above all, not constantly reiterating how “our” culture or country is number one (or not number one, for that matter). ↗

— Edward W. Said

#culture #humanity #imperialism #labels #survival

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#fittest #instead #laughing #should #survival

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally. ↗

— Lena Headey

#child #emotionally #feet #had #i

Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet. ↗

— Jack Herer

#ensure #gases #greenhouse #greenhouse gases #growing