Auroville City Quotes & Sayings

We men are wretched things. — Homer

Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would. — Ann Powers

Auroville (City of Dawn) is an 'experimental' township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India near Puducherry in South India. It was founded in 1968 by Mirra Richard (since her definitive settling in India called '[The] Mother') and designed by architect Roger Anger. Auroville is meant to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity. — Mirra Alfassa

Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong. — John Jay Hooker

Be afraid of nothing. You have within you all wisdom, all power, all strength, all understanding. — Eileen Caddy

Art is about paying attention. — Laurie Anderson

I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back ... but God has a bigger shovel! — R. G. LeTourneau