

“It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.”
― In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
― In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

“Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.”
― The Wretched of the Earth
― The Wretched of the Earth

“To win big, we have to follow the methods of spending very little time engaging with people who already agree, and devote most of our time to the harder work of helping people who do not agree come to understand who is really to blame for the pain in their lives.”
― A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
― A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy

“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
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