"Violence always seems to me the worst form……" — Rebecca Solnit
"Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live."
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127 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
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The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend…
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The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other…
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How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
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I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE…
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Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of…
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Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall,…
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For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that…
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The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score.…
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I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge…
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Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's…
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Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
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When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed…
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I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really…
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Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.
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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what…
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It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends
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The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
— George A. Moore
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The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the…
— Willis R. Whitney
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It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Somehow it always seems that the crummier the test, the higher the heritability it produces.
— Unknown Author
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As my father-in-law once said, when they talk about taxes it's always for teachers, firemen, and police - but when…
— Glenn Reynolds
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So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems…
— Albert Einstein
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The extreme always seems to make an impression.
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