“So much immorality, so much petty selfishness in using migrants for mere electoral interests.”
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: La Otra Historia. Radiorama de Occidente. 1480AM Rock&Pop. Guadalajara, Mexico.
“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
“Portraying poverty or violence as a photogenic landscape is a betrayal.”
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja
“I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
Jack London (1876–1916) American author, journalist, and social activist
Variant: "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." also mentioned as Jack London quote in Ian Fleming book You Only Live Twice (1964), Ch. 21 : Orbit
Source: San Francisco Bulletin in 1916. Also included as an introduction to a compilation of Jack London short stories in 1956.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Variant: I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
“We don't like to kill our unborn, we need them to grow up and fight our wars.”
Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor
" We're From America http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/marilynmanson/werefromamerica.html". <br class="br">2000s, The High End of Low (2009)
“The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.”
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
“If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.”
Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player
Golda Meir (1898–1978) former prime minister of Israel
Press conference in London (1969), as quoted in A Land of Our Own : An Oral Autobiography (1973) edited by Marie Syrkin, p. 242
Variant: When peace comes, we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.
“It's not only the question, but the way you try to solve it.”
Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017) Iranian mathematician
Interview with Research Fellow Maryam Mirzakhani | january 2008
“The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
James Hinton, Philosophy and Religion: Selections from the Manuscripts of the Late James Hinton, ed. Caroline Haddon, (2nd ed., London: 1884), [//books.google.com/books?id=DpxRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA267 p. 267].
Widely misattributed on the internet to Dewey, who actually attributes it to Hinton in Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology (New York: 1922), [//books.google.com/books?id=Ws0RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA115 p. 115].
Misattributed
