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The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.


Sigmar Gabriel


#democracy #end #era #example #failed

Delphine witnessed awful things occurring to other humans. Worse than that, she was powerless to alter their fate. It would be that way all her life--disasters, falling like chairs all around her, falling so close they disarranged her hair, but not touching her.


Louise Erdrich


#powerlessness #witnessing #life

The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.


Alan Cranston


#adventures #appealed #being #correspondent #covering

Becoming aware of the intense suffering of billions of animals, and of our own participation in that suffering, can bring up painful emotions: sorrow and grief for the animals; anger at the injustice and deception of the system; despair at the enormity of the problem; fear that trusted authorities and institutions are, in fact, untrustworthy; and guilt for having contributed to the problem. Bearing witness means choosing to suffer. Indeed, empathy is literally 'feeling with.' Choosing to suffer is particularly difficult in a culture that is addicted to comfort--a culture that teaches that pain should be avoided whenever possible and that ignorance is bliss. We can reduce our resistance to witnessing by valuing authenticity over personal pleasure, and integration over ignorance.


Melanie Joy


#suffering #witnessing #anger

"It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).


J. Robert Oppenheimer


#atomic #first #said #witnessing #worked

We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.


Ted Cruz


#constitution #country #defend #great #liberty

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?


Colin Firth


#afterwards #big #case #instinct #me

I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.


John Grisham


#been #being #doubt #dreamed #ever

I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.


Rachel Corrie


#destruction #feel #horrifying #i #i feel






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