Ximenes Belo Quotes & Sayings

I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it. — Harold Brodkey

Justice from Love, and Love from Justice — Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn. — Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh the responsibility to transform tomorrow's world into a society where peace, harmony, and fraternity reign. — Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

Love is what you would do for the other person, not what you do in general. — T.M. Frazier

Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved — Michael Harner

I believe that the attacks on your life have much more to do with who you might be in the future than who you have been in the past. — Lisa Bevere

The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But when a people chooses the nonviolent path, it is all too often the case that hardly anyone pays attention. It is tragic that people have to suffer and die and the television cameras have to deliver the pictures to people's homes every day before the world at large admits there is a problem. — Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

The 2004 presidential election that saw George W. Bush win with 51 percent of the vote was the last one Republicans will ever win with the overwhelmingly white and male coalition they have now. — John Podhoretz

I don't have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of what I see that could be photographed. They are fragments of endless possibilities. — Saul Leiter

Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to. — Jim Morris