Connexions Quotations

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Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
- Martha Graham


The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
- Fydor Dostoevsky


Democracy is the road to socialism.
- Karl Marx


Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations, for the corporations, by the corporations.
- Arundhati Roy


Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank


The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
- Karl Marx


Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
- Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde


Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
- Howard Zinn - Howard Zinn


Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
- Albert Schweitzer - Albert Schweitzer


Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
- Desmond Tutu


Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. Pave paradise, put up a parking lot.
- Joni Mitchell - Joni Mitchell


Double think means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
- George Orwell


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