Sophal Ear quotes

From 1965 to 1973, more munitions fell on Cambodia than on all of World War II Japan, including the two nuclear bombs of August 1945.
-- Sophal Ear

#Motivation #War #Inspiration

You know the John Lennon song 'Imagine'? 'Imagine no possessions, no religion'? That's what it was like in Cambodia. The only thing people had was a spoon, for eating the daily pourridge. And that pourridge was grossly insufficient for the work they were made to do in the fields.
-- Sophal Ear

#Song #People #Spoons

A culture of dialogue is breaking down and giving way to a culture of threats and impunity, you can see the strategy already ... and what you have is essentially the threat of imprisonment in order to control people better.
-- Sophal Ear

#Order #People #Giving

The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

Both of them can get it. They can line up. I'll fight both of them in one night, and I bet it won't go 12 rounds.

When I want to talk to someone from Golden Boy, I make sure Richard calls me. Bosses talk to bosses.

I don't play games. I ran away from home because my Dad brought me an Xbox.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite