“Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.” RememberLeftTerribleHappeningsClaimsVietnam Author:James Donald
“We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in favor of human rights, and our leaders are in the news demanding consequences for other countries that are abusing their populations. But there is a huge denial about how widespread and common these kinds of atrocities are in the United States, and that we are not nearly as different from other countries as we would like to believe we are.” BelieveHumansKindChildrenDifferentCountryStatesGovernmentUnitedCommonLeaderUnited StatesRightsHugeNewsHappeningsConsequenceClaimsHuman RightsPopulationFavorsHorribleDenialOther CountriesGlobesAtrocities Author:Lundy Bancroft
“Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.” WritingAgeBeautifulLandHappeningsClaims Book:The Certain Hour Source: The Certain Hour
“All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth.” PeopleWorldWritingWellsPoliticalLyingPayComfortableHappeningsConcernClaimsQuaker Author:Storm Jameson
“It's the digital era. What makes it exciting is that it's both the Golden Age of television and the Wild West of television. Something is happening now that's unprecedented, and we know that we're a part of it. What could be more exciting or better than that? You can't lose because you're on the pony and you're staking the claim.” KnowsAgeLosesTelevisionHappeningsExcitingClaimsWestGoldenErasDigitalUnprecedentedGolden AgePoniesWild West Author:Kate Mulgrew
“In shamanism and certain yogas, Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose is to familiarize yourself with this after-death body, in life, and then the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. You will recognize what is happening. You will know what to do. And you will make the clean break.” KnowsBodyPurposeCertainBreakDyingHappeningsYogaClaimsCleanConfusionAfter DeathShamanism Author:Terence McKenna
“There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: this is not happening in my backyard.” WorldCountryGirlCitiesLeaderViolenceHappeningsClaimsBackyardsLive Free Author:Michelle Bachelet
“I've also found that trying to be active with social media changes my moment-to-moment perceptions. Instead of feeling, "What's the deepest version of what's happening here?" I start to feel, "How can I use [or "claim"] this?".” FeelsTryingMomentsUseFeelingsFoundSocialMediaPerceptionHappeningsClaimsSocial MediaActiveVersions Author:George Saunders
“Whenever it happens it is never late; whenever it happens it is always early. The happening is so great that you cannot claim it for yourself. You cannot say: `I have earned it.` The happening is so great that it is always through grace and not through effort. It happens through effortlessness. Whenever it happens, you know well that it is through compassion, grace, that it has happened. It has nothing to do with you or your earning” KnowsWellsHappensEffortCompassionGraceHappenedLateHappeningsClaimsEarning Author:Rajneesh
“In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences. This is the basis of our developmental law, which, in a nutshell, claims that the diversity of phenomena is a necessary consequence of the accumulation of the results of all individual occurrences happening one after another... The current state of the earth, thus, constitutes the as yet most diverse final result, which of course represents not a real but only a momentary end-point.” RealEndsStatesEarthLawScienceCertainCoursesIndividualResultsEventsDiversityHappeningsConsequenceBasesClaimsFinalsCurrentsLastingDiverseAccumulationMomentaryDevelopmentalCausing Change Author:Bernhard von Cotta
“We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists are terrorists, but these people are simply ignorant of who the real terrorists are - the companies and industries that torture literally billions of animals each year.” PeopleNeedsYearsRealAnimalCompanyRightsMovementIndustryHappeningsClaimsExtremesBillionsTerroristIgnorantTortureActivistAnimal RightsAnimal Rights Activists Author:River Phoenix