“If you look back to the anti-intervention movements, what were they? Let's take the Vietnam War - the biggest crime since the Second World War. You couldn't be opposed to the war for years. The mainstream liberal intellectuals were enthusiastically in support of the war. In Boston, a liberal city where I was, we literally couldn't have a public demonstration without it being violently broken up, with the liberal press applauding, until late 1966.” IfsWorldYearsLooksWarCitiesSupportCrimeMovementBrokenLatePressesWar Of The WorldsVietnamMainstreamBostonInterventionDemonstrationVietnam WarSecond World WarBroken Up Author:Noam Chomsky
“Everything that makes a society run is broken in Iraq. The only real structure is the people's own sense of themselves as Iraqis, which was very strong. They're a proud people, and they trace their historic roots way, way back.” PeopleWayRealRunningStrongBrokenProudRootsStructureIraqVery StrongHistoric Author:Bruce Cockburn
“When God's children disobeyed their heavenly Father, they damaged everything. When Adam and Eve rebelled against the King of the universe, they broke the whole world. This is why there is evil and suffering. Bad things happen in a world that's broken.” WorldChildrenWholeHappensSufferingUniverseEvilFatherBrokenKingsThings HappenWhole WorldBrokeHeavenlyBad ThingsAdamHeavenly FatherAdam And EveBad Things HappenEvil And Suffering Author:Greg Koukl
“I was talking to a friend of mine who's a teacher in Iowa and, you know, she teaches kids - English is their second language, and they're scared that they're going to get sent home, their family's going to get broken up. Regardless of whether [Donald Trump] does it or not, whether it's true or not, the rhetoric creates a climate of fear and tension, and that's not good for the country.” KnowsDoeCountryHomeKidsLanguageTalkingTeachTeacherMinesBrokenTrumpClimateScaredTensionRhetoricIowaBroken Up Author:Margaret Hoover
“MAD FREE is simply described as "Liberating Conversations with Revolutionary Women about Beauty, Image and Power". It began as a Salon series in NY loft in Brooklyn as a salve to my broken heart after Honey Magazine folded. It was not because of the readership or because the market wasn't there; the company that held it collapsed, which I was the last editor in chief of.” HeartLastsCompanyBrokenConversationMadSeriesMagazinesChiefsRevolutionaryEditorsHoneyLiberatingBrooklynReadershipSalons Author:Michaela Angela Davis
“For children, the era of mass incarceration has meant a tremendous amount of family separation, broken homes, poverty, and a far, far greater level of hopelessness as they see so many of their loved ones cycling in and out of prison. Children who have incarcerated parents are far more likely themselves to be incarcerated.” ChildrenHomeParentLevelsPovertyGreaterBrokenAmountMassPrisonSeparationErasLoved OnesHopelessnessCyclingIncarcerationMass IncarcerationBroken Homes Author:Michelle Alexander
“Our entire judicial system in Liberia has broken down because of the many years of lawlessness, indiscipline and warfare. We need more training to get more qualified judges. We need infrastructural reforms. All of our laws need to be re-examined by a law reform commission.” NeedsYearsLawJudgingBrokenTrainingReformWarfareQualifiedJudicialBroken DownLawlessnessJudicial System Author:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
“When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.” LongEnoughBrokenModels Author:Grace Jones
“Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends... Glass and Woolf have both broken out of the traditional realm of the story, whether literary or musical, in favor of something more meditative, less neatly delineated, and more true to life. For me, Glass [finds] in three repeated notes something of [a] rapture of sameness.” EndsStoriesThreeBrokenNotesMusicalGlassesFavorsTraditionalRealmsVirginiaRaptureSamenessTrue LifePhilipClimaxWoolf Author:Michael Cunningham
“The lovers enter into a story together - "this how we met, this is how we were meant for each other" - and then at some point (in my experience, at least), the story splits, and they no longer share it. Then, you either change the story, or you break up. I've always broken up.” StoriesTogetherBreakShareBrokenLoversMetsSplitsBroken Up Author:Melissa Febos
“What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live up to our dreams? What sort of dreams were these that have been broken? Isn't the greatness of great nations directly proportionate to their ability to be ruthless, genocidal? Doesn't the height of a country's 'success' usually also mark the depths of its moral failure?” Has BeensCountryDreamNationsAbilityLove IsMoralGreatnessBrokenMarkDepthHeightOur DreamsRuthlessGreat NationsMoral Failure Author:Arundhati Roy
“In the fall literally everything is broken. Nothing on this planet works. Every body is broken, none of our bodies works perfectly. Every relationship is broken. The weather is broken. I don't have a problem with hurricanes. Nothing works on this planet. This is not heaven, this is Earth and that is why we are to pray thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven. Why? Because God's perfect will is done perfectly in heaven. So I am to pray that done here.” DoneProblemBodyEarthFallHeavenPerfectPlanetsBrokenPrayingWeatherHurricanesThy Will Be DoneBody Work Author:Rick Warren
“The Bible portrays God as entering into covenants with people which, when broken, causes him grief and sorrow. The biblical prophet Hosea and God's using him as an illustration of how much Israel's idolatry costs God emotionally points to God's vulnerability. But also the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ who, even as God the Son, suffered for our sins, points to God's vulnerability.” PeopleJesusCausesChristSinGriefSonBrokenSorrowCostJesus ChristIsraelVulnerabilityProphetBiblicalEnteringIncarnationCovenantIdolatryIllustration Author:Roger E. Olson
“[Dario Argento] speaks very broken English - he's Italian, so I'm going to do a very bad Italian impersonation - but he asked me my name, and I told him, and he goes, "Walk across the room." He looked at me, and he said, "Do you want to be in my movie [Two Evil Eyes]?" I was, like, "Yeah! Yeah, I do!"He goes, "Okay! You play Betty!" And I was, like, "Oh, I'm playing an extra named Betty! Great!" So we walked out, thinking that I was playing an extra named Betty, no lines, just background.” ThinkingWantSaidTwoPlayEyeEvilNamesSpeakLinesWalksRoomsBrokenOkayYeahBackgroundsExtrasItalianTwo EvilsEvil EyeBroken English Author:Julie Benz
“The Iraq War is the first war in history, in which there were huge demonstrations before the war was launched, not beginning five years later and then being broken up. All of these are changes, and the people who are writing in journals today lived through these changes.” PeopleWritingYearsFirstsWarTodayFiveHugeBrokenIraqFive YearsJournalDemonstrationIraq WarBroken UpBeing Broken Author:Noam Chomsky
“South America has virtually broken away in the last decade. That's an event of historic significance. South America just doesn't follow US orders. In fact there isn't a single US military base left there.” FactsLastsAmericaOrderLeftMilitaryEventsBrokenSouthDecadesSignificanceHistoricSouth AmericaUs Military Author:Noam Chomsky
“If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.” IfsGivingHeartChildrenGrowsBreakGrowing UpBrokenOur ChildrenYour Children Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Today China is a first world economy, in terms of development. The U.S. may still be in first in GDP but it is a broken economy in reality.” WorldFirstsMayStillsRealityTodayTermEconomyBrokenDevelopmentChinaGdpWorld Economy Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“What we were most hoping to achieve with Shots Fired: empathy for all of the characters and conversations about our criminal justice system, which is broken on every level, from the street all the way up to the highest level of government.” WayCharacterGovernmentJusticeLevelsStreetsAchieveBrokenConversationHighestEmpathyShotsCriminalsJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice System Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood
“We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.” WorldI CanJesusGraceBrokenMessMosaicsBroken World Author:Ann Voskamp
“Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died. Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stem rose. Everybody knows.” KnowsWantLongFeelingsFatherTalkingDogBrokenDiedRoseBoxesBoatPocketsChocolateCaptainsStemLiedBox Of Chocolates Author:Leonard Cohen
“That is something I try to stress to the wrestlers nowadays - there is an epidemic of spot monkeys in the business. They often are so concerned with the fans' reactions that they're willing to kill themselves, while I am trying to help them move past that. It is not about the move, it's about the moment you create, and that's what I'm doing through my broken brilliance.” TryingMomentsHelpingPastMovingFansWillingBrokenConcernedStressReactionsSpotsMonkeysBrillianceEpidemicsWrestler Author:Matt Hardy
“It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there was a little phantom version of you sitting on your shoulder with a notebook going, I can use this. OK, look at the way that the light is glinting off the broken plastic on the road next to the blood. You can use this. And it was always a very strange feeling.” WayLooksLittlesI CanMomentsUseFeelingsLightNextFeltBloodStrangeBrokenTerribleSittingShouldersVersionsPlasticNotebookPhantoms Author:Neil Gaiman
“One of the ongoing crises in America is institutional racism. We have a very broken criminal justice system. We live in a country where there are more people in jail than any other country on Earth. There are some 2.2 million people currently incarcerated and they are disproportionally African American and Hispanic. Unarmed African Americans have been abused and sometimes killed while in police custody. Clearly these are issues that must be dealt with and changed.” PeopleHas BeensCountrySometimesEarthAmericaJusticeMillionsIssuesChangedBrokenRacismPoliceCrisisCriminalsAfrican AmericanJailOther CountriesOngoingJustice SystemHispanicCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice SystemUnarmedCustodyInstitutional Racism Author:Bernie Sanders
“I would say 99 percent of the time, you're probably attracted to the other person because it is repairing something that's a little broken in yourself. When you're getting into the relationship, whether that becomes an impediment or the rocket fuel, that's the choice of the person who's in it.” LittlesPersonsChoicesBrokenPercentFuelRocketsImpedimentsRepairing Author:Gillian Jacobs
“The great thing about fiction is that I don't have to settle on an answer to any troubling question, or even a solution. I hope that my stories serve as explorations and help show readers how and why real-life women don't always make the "correct" decisions in the face of economic and sexual troubles. We all screw up, but the women I write about don't have back-up plans or money in the back or resources to fix what they have broken.” WritingHelpingDecisionTroubleEconomicBrokenSolutionsGreat ThingsSettlingExploration Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“Generally people are afraid. They pretend they aren’t; it’s part of the denial. We’re all part of it. As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what’s comfortable, and we’re afraid of the different. We’re afraid of change. It happened in Los Angeles, too, when the first models of Disney Hall were shown. You should have heard the outcry from the public, critics and press. It was called “broken crockery,” “outlandish” and blah blah blah. Of course now the feeling is different.” PeopleDifferentFeelingsBrokenCriticsDenialLos AngelesOutlandish Author:Frank Gehry
“We need to start looking at what we can do as a society to set up men like Sir Lance and Ty and even the young man over the gang for success because it's a system that's broken, not just the actions of the individual.” MenActionIndividualBrokenGang Author:Daniel Beaty
“From person's movement patterns I can tell a lot of things: if pain is in the body, whether someone is depressed, what age they are. When you see someone whose chest is withdrawn, their deltoids are rolled forward. That's someone whose history has broken them, in a sense. You can recognize that movement of pulling away and protecting the heart across all cultures.” HeartAgePainCultureBroken Author:Dana Tai Soon Burgess
“The corporations own the elections and they're manipulating the masses. We have to come up with a new system, because this one is broken. That's why I work very hard to create new patterns.” BrokenElection Author:Jodie Evans
“My two souls, the socially conscious one and the lighthearted one, are always in my movies because they find a perfect habitat in my grotesque style, which combines tragedy and humor, irony and sarcasm, comedy and drama. I also feel that rules are made to be broken, especially in art! I prefer creative disorder to strict rules.” ArtSoulPerfectCreativeComedyStyleBrokenDramaConsciousTragedyIronySarcasm Author:Lina Wertmuller
“I've learned through the years how to base my identity and sense of self-worth on myself and not others. I've learned the most critical tool of all: self-love. Now, if it doesn't work out with someone, sure, I'll be hurt. But I'll be bruised, not broken. And I may lose my balance, but I won't be wiped off my feet.” HurtIdentityBrokenBalanceWork OutSense Of Self Author:Amy Chan
“I've never heard a White House staff say that the president was too stupid or too ill-informed to have broken the law. And that's really what it comes down to. The truth is, he leaked highly classified information that he shouldn't have leaked. It's one thing to say, "Hey, I'm the president. Nobody can punish me for that." It's another thing entirely to just deny that he did it. We know that he did it. And he really ought to own up to it.” HousePresidentStupidBrokenTruth Is Author:John Kiriakou
“To look at infidelity from the point of view of sex is a complete narrowing of the phenomenon. There's a reason that the commandment is repeated twice in the Bible - once for doing it and once for thinking about it. We have always created structures and broken structures. It is essential to the human spirit.” ThinkingReasonSpiritBrokenPoint Of ViewPhenomenonInfidelityHuman Spirit Author:Esther Perel
“I remember thinking all TV was black and white, but that was because we had a really old, broken TV. And then I went to a friend's house and I was like, woah, your TV is like, crazy! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. That was my first show.” ThinkingRememberHouseBlackCrazyBrokenBlack And WhiteTeenageNinja Author:Ruby Rose
“There are certain people in my life who didn't care to be in my book. And so I cut them out. And I had broken up with somebody. And I was, you know, really upset and depressed. And so that was, you know, reasons to keep going.” PeopleBookReasonCareCuttingBrokenUpsetKeep Going Author:David Sedaris
“Barack Obama got ten million more votes than John McCain. I'd like to believe that none of the millions of people laid off during Obama's time in office will vote for him again. If that happens, a conservative will be elected in 2012 and we can work to fix what Obama has broken.” PeopleBelieveBrokenOfficeVoteConservativeBarackMccain Author:Rush Limbaugh
“This is old school Drive-By Media treatment: take my comments out of context; play 'em for people on the street; go interview the obligatory feminazi, roll video from 1988 of me, and the end of the story then pops up. This is how to media operated, folks, before their monopoly was broken.” PeopleSchoolBrokenCommentOld SchoolOf Context Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.” EconomyBrokenPoliticianBuilder Author:Peter Thiel
“There's no substitute for the power of a personal story. The true stories of God redeeming a broken life shoot like arrows straight to our hearts and remind us that God wants to do the same life changing work in our lives. I love how one story can impact another story, causing a ripple effect of change if we let it.” HeartBrokenLife ChangingRippleTrue Story Author:Matthew West
“Trump has not masked who he is. Trump has not behaved like the Democrats do. He does not go out and camouflage. He doesn't present a side of him that isn't real. He doesn't lie to people about what he believes. Although he has broken a serious promise. And he's got some immigration people that voted for him that are a little angry about that. That must be mentioned. But other than that, Trump voters know Trump is who he is. He doesn't act, he doesn't put on a front, he doesn't make up things - as opposed to the Democrats who can't be honest about who they are.” PeopleBelieveRealLyingHonestSeriousBrokenPromiseDemocratImmigrationBeing Honest Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We did start with a simple manifesto, as we called it, which was a description of what we were about, and it was the Un-carrier. It was about finding and solving customer pain points in an attempt to fix a stupid, broken, arrogant industry. It was something we felt passionate about. It was our goal to make changes and have the industry make the same ones.” PainGoalSimpleStupidBrokenPassionateArrogantMaking Changes Author:John J. Legere
“If you look at the state of California, the children who are not receiving the education that they should are both black and Latino children. And together they would represent a majority of progressive voters in the state of California. And the state is still very, very broken.” ChildrenTogetherBlackBrokenProgressiveLatino Author:Maria Echaveste
“When you're talking horror or sci-fi, you're working in a genre that has loosely certain thematic elements, or, you could even call them rules. But rules are there to be broken. I think that young filmmakers should go all the way back to the history of horror, from silent films like "Nosferatu", and through to today's horror films, so they understand the history of horror films and what has been done. Understand that, and then add something new or original.” ThinkingDoneFilmBrokenHorrorSilentFilmmakerSomething NewHorror Film Author:Roger Corman
“Well, I think it's just remarkable how wrong the conventional wisdom was. It was utterly shocking that Donald Trump won to people who live on the coasts, but to people who live in the areas that I come from, it was utterly predictable. And that suggests something really, really broken about our political culture.” PeopleThinkingPoliticalCultureBrokenRemarkablePredictableConventional Wisdom Author:James Vance
“The politics is broken up and down. And Trump may emerge from a reality TV world that is much more powerful than we think. And there is the prospect that this is where we are, which is an horrific thought.” ThinkingWorldRealityPowerfulBrokenHorrific Author:David Brooks
“I declare today for the world to hear that the West will never, ever be broken. Our values will prevail. Our people will thrive. And our civilization will triumph.” PeopleWorldTodayValuesBrokenThrive Author:Donald Trump
“I don't think I've ever had my heart broken, because I'm a man. I laughed it off, and then went and had sex with about 16 women, all unprotected.” ThinkingMenHeartBrokenMy HeartHeart Broke Author:Damon Wayans, Jr.
“What's weird about the cinema business is that you have to have a thick skin while remaining vulnerable as an artist. It comes with time. You get dumped, your heart gets broken.” HeartArtistBrokenSkinsVulnerableDumped Author:Rose Byrne
“Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.” WorldLoveWarHateEvilDarkEnemyModernBrokenReactionsChainsAbyssModern WorldComplacencyAnnihilationLove Your EnemiesGood Against EvilLoving Your EnemiesI Hate LoveChain ReactionsImpasse Book:I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr