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“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues....”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“الفارق بين النرجس و عبّاد الشمس هو
الفرق بين وجهتي نظر: الأول ينظر إلى صورته في الماء و يقول: لا انا إلا أنا. و الثاني ينظر إلى الشمس و يقول: ما انا إلاما أعبد.
و في الليل، يضيق الفارق، و يتسع التأويل!”
― محمود درويش, أثر الفراشة

“One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.”
― Émile Durkheim, Suicide: A Study in Sociology

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud

“A woman should soften but not weaken a man.”
― Sigmund Freud

“We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.”
― Piet Hein

“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.”
― Charles Wright Mills

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
― audre lorde