"We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling……" — Harry Belafonte
"We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to be paid for it -- look at 9/11. [That] wasn't just bin Laden. Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy."
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Harry Belafonte
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38 Quotes by Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte has 38 quotes on this site.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.
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Anti-democracy...is a virus that exists, and pro-democracy is the antibody to that virus, and I think we have to become…
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Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.
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Through electing officials that will protect the Constitution and commit themselves to the rights of the people and the health…
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I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind,…
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These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a…
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Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children,…
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If I've impacted on one heart, one mind, one soul, and brought to that individual a greater truth than that…
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No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're…
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We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having…
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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