Demokratische Republik Quotes & Sayings

Wish my life were inside a book
So I could turn to the ending,
See if it is a love story
Or a gothic disaster. — Stasia Ward Kehoe

A capitalist society requires a culture based on images. It needs to furnish vast amounts of entertainment in order to stimulate buying and anesthetise the injuries of class, race, and sex. And it needs to gather unlimited amounts of information, the better to exploit natural resources, increase productivity, keep order, make war, give jobs to bureaucrats. The camera's twin capacities, to subjectivise reality and to objectify it, ideally serve these needs as strengthen them. Cameras define reality in the two ways essential to the workings of an advanced industrial society: as a spectacle (for masses) and as an object of surveillance (for rulers). The production of images also furnishes a ruling ideology. Social change is replaced by a change in images. The freedom to consume a plurality of images and goods is equated with freedom itself. The narrowing of free political choice to free economic consumption requires the unlimited production and consumption of images. — Susan Sontag

A man," he said, deep voice like velvet, warm breath caressing my cheek, "knows when to take action and when to be still, knows his strengths and his weaknesses, knows control when it is necessary and release when it is essential. And a man" - his voice had dropped deep, throaty, close to my ear - "knows when a woman wants him and how to please her. — Juliette Cross

The best Leaders Without a Title use their heads and listen to their hearts. — Robin Sharma

Who else but you shelters guys like me and Adam from the storms of our lives? Angels are warriors, you know. — Lauren Dane