"If we don't hang together, by Heavens we shall hang separately"

“For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.”

“I had a lovely experience once in Africa working with the UN when a president of a country met me about refugee issues and said 'What do you do?' I said 'I'm an actor.' He replied 'I heard that was a very difficult job and might not be the smartest job to do.' It was lovely.”

“I am sick of being the victim of trends I reflect but don't even understand.”

“All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.”

“I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed, and that did not represent the attempt to prevent or undo this ‘loss of face’—no matter how severe the punishment, even if it includes death.”

Source : James Gilligan (1996). “Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and Its Causes”, Putnam Adult

“I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.”

“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”

“The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the world on democracy. It's an unbelievable show of self-satisfaction and arrogance.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de