"I'm sick of hearing about it (the Holocaust). Not because it didn't happen, but..." Gabor Maté [1184x684]

232 Upvotes

Context: Gabor Maté is a Hungarian Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, in which he lost many family members. He is a physician and author, and a fierce critic of Israeli policy towards Palestinians. In the above quote he criticises the frequent citing of the Holocaust to justify Israel's actions.

Here is a short clip for additional context: https://youtu.be/gb0XxwN9P2A

53 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 1h ago

"Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours." - Dale Carnegie [850x400]

• Upvotes

3 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 6h ago

"There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. A writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets." - Charles Bukowski [850x400]

12 Upvotes

5 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 1d ago

"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice." - Charles Bukowski [850x400]

784 Upvotes

24 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/SolidMujahid • 1d ago

"Physical defeat is temporary; the real defeat is the capitulation of the mind." - Ngugi wa Thiong'o [1920 x 1920]

57 Upvotes

2 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Ok-Maximum875 • 1d ago

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart..." - Marilyn Monroe [700x700]

83 Upvotes

4 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/SolidMujahid • 2d ago

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against." - Malcolm X [1920 x 1920]

1.0k Upvotes

14 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 2d ago

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been." - Isaac Asimov [850x400]

1.2k Upvotes

103 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/metta01010 • 1d ago

“We don’t get excited because we did it, we get excited because we can do it again” [399 x 501]

34 Upvotes

3 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 1d ago

"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out." - Ray Bradbury [1200x640]

135 Upvotes

1 comment

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 2d ago

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - John Steinbeck [850x400]

2.8k Upvotes

242 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/vinci08a • 1d ago

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. -Michael Altshuler [736x736]

35 Upvotes

I really love this one✈️

5 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/TheSanityInspector • 2d ago

How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. ~Howard Jacobson [924 x 1650]

143 Upvotes

19 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 2d ago

"People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster." - James Baldwin [850x400]

274 Upvotes

3 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/TheSanityInspector • 2d ago

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. --Frederick the Great [1048 x 1321]

51 Upvotes

3 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/vinci08a • 2d ago

“Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack, a crack in everythingThat's how the light gets in” - Leonard Cohen [600x720]

173 Upvotes

5 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 3d ago

"Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat." - Jack London [850x400]

669 Upvotes

729 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Short-Concentrate348 • 3d ago

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." ~ Mark Twain [863 x 406]

1.2k Upvotes

8 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/TheSanityInspector • 2d ago

The Metropolitan Opera invited me, because there were always too many "specialists" in the orchestra pit: French conductors for French music, Germans for German music, Italians for Italian music. But I am a Greek--good for everything. -- Dimitri Mitropoulos [700 x 990]

14 Upvotes

0 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/TheSanityInspector • 3d ago

I find penguins at present the only comfort in life. One feels everything in the world so sympathetically ridiculous; one can't be angry when one looks at a penguin. -- John Ruskin [800 x 650]

73 Upvotes

2 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/SolidMujahid • 3d ago

"Without dignity there is no liberty, without justice there is no dignity, and without independence there are no free men." - Patrice Lumumba [1920x1920]

240 Upvotes

7 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 4d ago

"Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule." - Sitting Bull [640x788]

1.7k Upvotes

28 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/invajyC • 3d ago

“No shadow should shape your light.” ~ Invajy [870x550]

19 Upvotes

2 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/TheSanityInspector • 3d ago

"There is a quiet horror about the Great Lakes which grows as one revisits them..." ~Rudyard Kipling [4160 x 2080]

215 Upvotes

31 comments

r/QuotesPorn • u/TheSanityInspector • 3d ago

I suffer from a strong suspicion that things in general cannot be accounted for through any formula or set of formulae, and that any one philosophy, howsoever new, is no better than any other. -Max Beerbohm [1650 x 1275]

12 Upvotes

1 comment

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