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“Our capacity as human beings for imagination and storytelling makes us exquisitely vulnerable to exploitation by those who understand the properties of ideological power.”
― Power, Interest and Psychology: Elements of a Social Materialist Understanding of Distress
― Power, Interest and Psychology: Elements of a Social Materialist Understanding of Distress
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous,
tranquil contribution of all
to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism.
Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.
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Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous,
tranquil contribution of all
to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism.
Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.
”
―
“The social havoc wreaked by unfettered economic greed comes to be interiorised as the personal weakness and irresponsibility of those principally affected.”
― Power, Interest and Psychology: Elements of a Social Materialist Understanding of Distress
― Power, Interest and Psychology: Elements of a Social Materialist Understanding of Distress
“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
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