“What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.” ThinkingNeedsKindDreamActionFormValuesKindnessViolenceTalentConflictAmbitionEverydayResolutionNurturingConflict ResolutionUsing Your Talents Author:Gloria Steinem
“We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. I am a specialist, God help me, in events in inner space and time, in experiences called thoughts, images, reveries, dreams, visions, hallucinations, dreams of memories, memories of dreams, memories of visions, dreams of hallucinations, refractions of refractions of refractions of that original Alpha and Omega of experience and reality, that Reality on whose repression, denial, splitting, projection, falsification, and general desecration and profanation our civilisation as much as anything is based.” HelpingDreamRealityMemoriesSpaceVisionViolenceEventsOriginalsDenialHelp MeDestroyingTime And SpaceProjectionRepressionCivilisationSpecialistsHallucinationsGod HelpReverieAlphasSplittingGod Help MeAlpha And OmegaFalsificationDestroying Ourselves Book:The Politics of Experience Source: The Politics of Experience
“If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is a place of suffering, a place of fear, a place of war and violence, a place of judgment and no justice, a place of punishment that never ends.” IfsWayHumansLooksWarEndsDreamSufferingReligiousJusticeHellViolenceJudgmentPunishmentDescriptionHuman Society Author:Miguel
“To all the kids who looked up to me, I’m truly sorry for letting you down, but I hope it’s helped you learn that one bad decision can turn your dream into a nightmare. There is no excuse for domestic violence, and I apologize for the horrible mistake I made.” MadeDreamKidsTurnsDecisionMistakeViolenceSorryExcuseHorribleYour DreamsNightmareApologizingDomestic ViolenceNo ExcusesI ApologizeBad DecisionHorrible Mistakes Author:Ray Rice
“When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.” DreamFantasyViolenceViolentYour DreamsRegions Author:Karen Armstrong
“Here we observe the basic obsessive fantasy of Žižek's position: do nothing, sit still, prefer not to, like Melville's Bartleby, and silently dream of a ruthless violence, a consolidation of state power into one man's hands, an act of brutal physical force of which you are the object or the subject or both at once.” MenStillsStatesDreamHandsForceFantasyViolenceSubjectsPositionObjectsOne ManBrutalRuthlessObsessivePhysical ForceConsolidationMelville Author:Simon Critchley
“The dream of Europe is a region of freedom and peace, of security, law, democracy, tolerance and mutual respect. If you look into the faces of the refugees you will see this dream. These are people who are fleeing from war, hate, violence and unjust systems.” PeopleIfsLooksWarDreamFacesLawHateDemocracyViolenceSecurityEuropeToleranceRegionsMutualUnjustRefugeeFleeingMutual RespectFreedom And Peace Author:Martin Schulz
“We're either awake or we're sleeping. During the time that we're awake, we work very hard at denying things, mainly because we have to function as people. We have to control and repress everything that we're fearful of, because it doesn't make sense to go crazy on the streets, but in reality we hide and we hide, repress and repress, our fears of the world of violence, of separation, of death, and sometimes hopes, and some things that are very joyful, reunions or all of those good things. It's only in dreams that we're really truthful with whatever hurts most; they're really very real.” PeopleWorldRealSometimesHardDreamRealityHurtSleepViolenceCrazyStreetsFunctionGood ThingsSeparationMake SenseAwakeFearfulTruthfulJoyfulReunion Author:Shirin Neshat
“America's the great conundrum and the great dream and the great fascination: the new land, the new world, the new temple, the new city, and the great mess. The most handguns, bombs, weaponry, violence, the cop of the world etcetera. All the contradictions. Mediocrity versus something like indigenous jazz, one of the most evolved sophisticated musical forms on the planet.” WorldDreamAmericaFormCitiesViolenceLandPlanetsJazzMusicalMessBombsContradictionTemplesMediocrityNew WorldCopSophisticatedVersusIndigenousFascinationHandgunsWeaponryConundrumsEtcetera Author:Anne Waldman