G Quotes
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“Genocide" is an invidious word that officials apply readily to cases of victimization in enemy states, but rarely if ever to similar or worse cases of victimization by the United States itself or allied regimes.”
Source: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
“Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the innocent, and it is baked in the ovens of Auschwitz. There were truths to be learnt and there was wisdom to be gained... but there was a price to to be paid as well. You could not brush up against the future and escape unscathed. You could not see into the forbidden and avoid damage to your sight.”
“Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No matter whether these relationships are very proximate or very distant, there is no entitlement to expunge a population or to demean its basic humanity.”
“Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.”
“Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war!”
“Genocide is patriotism.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“Genocide is Patriotism
(Sonnet 1634)
National anthems count for nothing,
when the nations are full of monkeys,
monkeys who keep buying bloodshed,
in the name of national security.
Genocide is patriotism, thus teaches
the textbook of defense and diplomacy.
What else do you expect from legal texts,
concocted by a bunch of stoneage monkeys!
Monkey kill, monkey laugh -
Monkeys are honored with medal!
Airforce, army, navy - so many ways
to maintain status quo of the jungle!
The purpose of every national anthem is to
enforce and maintain a status quo of war.
Show me a human without national pride,
I'll show you the pathway out of war.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“Genocide is the responsibility of the entire world.”
Source: A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq
“Genocide of the soul occurs when everyone else expects conformity based on false beliefs, that we should all think the same, act the same and aspire to be the same.---Tammy Wooster”
“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.”
Source: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Picador Classic
“Genocide, in my opinion - is an attempt by a powerful group completely to eradicate from the face of the Earth the existence of people because of their ethnic makeup or because of their race or religion, and that was the case with Hitler trying to exterminate the Jews, and that was the case in Rwanda, when the Tutsis were attacked and over 500,000 were killed in two or three days.”
“Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned, it's universally celebrated as part of a development strategy.”
“Genom att prioritera militär framför utbildning bygger vi bara en värld full av terrorister.”
Source: Världsviking: Gudomlig Poesi
“Genom att säga att din religion är den enda rätta religionen, bevisar du bara att din religion är fel religion.”
Source: Världsviking: Gudomlig Poesi
“Genom tillämpningar av alfabetsmagin bildades tidigt ett stort antal trollord, som sedan visat stor livskraft. Mest känt är ”ABRACADABRA”, vars ursprung visserligen är omtvistat men sannolikt utgörs av de fyra första bokstäverna i det grekiska alfabetet, skrivna ”a-ba-ga-da”. (En spridd uppfattning är även att det bildats av namnet Abraxas, mera känt i formen Abrasax, som återfinns på amuletter långt in i medeltiden.”
Source: Svenska trollformler
“Genom våra tankar och föreställningar konstruerar vi den inre och yttre världen. Vår unika värld beror i hög grad på de ögon som ser, och — icke att förglömma — den själ som gömmer sig bakom de ögon som ser.”
Source: Tankens kraft - kognitiv terapi i klinisk praktik
“Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.”
“Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.”
“Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.”
“Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.”
“Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.”
“Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.”
“Genre is a minimum security prison.”
“Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.”
“Genre is about retail," Lee said. "Bookstores want to know what shelf to put the book on. But there are really only two types of books. There is the one that makes you miss your stop on the subway. And there is the one that doesn't.”
Source: Reacher Said Nothing Lee Child & The Mak
“Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.”
“Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.”
“Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.”
“Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.”
“Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.”
“Genre/forms are institutional questions mainly. Like matter to MFA programs in terms of which workshop you can teach.”
“Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.”
“Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.”
“Genres are what holds each story together and help it along, but in no way should it ever be treated as a boundary, especially for a reader. If I’ve only read science fiction books, I would probably consider myself mad.”
Source: A Moment's Worth
“Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.”
“Genres aren't that relevant. Nearly every form of music is a melting pot of things of things.”
“Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.”
“Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have their footing, that's when you can start doing things that they don't expect.”
“Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization of the self that you don't have to engage in in the essay. In fact, the essay is a more social medium than the poem.”
“Genres pop up and get hot and then they die down.”
“Gente como essa (...) não pode ser absolvida com o argumento de que é produto de uma sociedade, pois foram criados em sociedades que também produziram pessoas éticas. Nenhuma sociedade fabrica, "em série", os seus cidadãos — somos todos responsáveis por nossos atos.
Já algumas vezes ouvi o argumento vergonhoso de que até "Hitler não nasceu monstro, foi a sociedade que o tornou assim". Penso, ao contrário, que não podemos fingir ignorar que temos livre-arbítrio e somos responsáveis pelas escolhas que fazemos, cada um de nós, é claro, dentro de uma situação social e política concreta, que é poderosa e determinante, mas não exclusiva. A história dos povos e a biografia dos indivíduos não são obra da fatalidade. Construímos nossas vidas que não estão escritas nas linhas de nossas mãos, lidas por uma cigana.”
Source: Teatro do Oprimido e outras poéticas políticas
“Gente morta, ideias mortas e supostamente momentos mortos nunca estão mortos de verdade e eles moldam cada momento das nossas vidas. Nós os ignoramos e isso os torna poderosos.”
“Gente que anda descalça. Que calça a terra que pisa.
(...)
Embora admita que, de algum modo, esta orfandade de pertença desenhou nele uma tatuagem cardíaca.
(...)
é o que acontece quando fazemos turismo; baixamos a guarda.
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A cidade é um mar que nos pode engolir a qualquer momento, um monstro que nos pode golpear sem aviso, um inferno de variáveis incertezas.
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Se a velhice me ensinou algo, é isto: a consciência plena dos desperdícios em favor das nossas próprias tolices.”
Source: Granta Portugal 4: África
“Gente que necesita tener razón. Y yo que aprendí a dársela, porque a ellos les hace falta tenerla y yo me conformo con saber que la tengo.”
“Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.”
“Gentelmen heve ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason.”
“Gentile dorea nemurirea […] Ce era viața? Ca spuma mării se ducea. Gentile voia să devină o stâncă în calea apei sau să fie asemeni vântului sau luminii soarelui.”
Source: Grădina alchimiștilor
“Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.”
“Gentileza é crença absoluta.”
Source: Monge Cientista
“Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert