“Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power.” IfsHumansSpeakHuman BeingsBoysViolenceDogPoliticianStonesCatSellsAddCharityContemptOppressedOrganizeOppressorsGood Politicians Book:A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Source: A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats
“Usually when I start to work and to prepare the movie, some inspirations, different kind of human beings, it can be someone I know, someone I don't, a girl, a boy. So usually when I start, quite right away, some inspirations come.” KnowsHumansKindDifferentInspirationGirlHuman BeingsBoysDifferent Kinds Author:Marion Cotillard
“The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed, if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.” IfsMenWorldNeedsHumansWould BeSchoolHuman BeingsLeaderBoysRepublicanMen And WomenArmyManagementSalvationOfficersEducatorSalesmanPlumberBusiness ManSalvation ArmyArmy Officers Author:Sinclair Lewis
“What I would say to young women is: Pay attention to the real. Pay attention to what you're really thirsting for. What do you really want? And I think that's much harder to decipher in a culture that has no interest in it. What interests me is, are we going to wake in time? Are human beings going to wake up to ourselves, to the incredible poverty that's on this planet, to what we're doing to the earth, to what we're doing to women, to what we're doing to boys? That's what's important.” ThinkingWantHumansImportantRealEarthYoungCultureInterestHuman BeingsPayAttentionBoysPovertyPlanetsHarderWake UpIncrediblesPay AttentionYoung WomenWhat's ImportantDecipher Author:Eve Ensler