Revelations Quotes - Page 13

• It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Art, Writing, Language

  Source: www.alternet.org

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• I encounter many Christians who've been raised in the church but never realized that there's a cohesive storyline from Genesis to Revelation.

  David Kim

  Christian, Church, Encounters

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.

  Desmond Tutu

  Jesus, Book, Finals

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• You have to say, whatever it is that I say or do or think or teach must be something that will be consistent with who Jesus Christ was. So that is your ultimate litmus test, not that you've got specific words to say, whatever they may be saying. It is what is being said. They're consistent with the revelation of God that we encounter in Jesus.

  Desmond Tutu

  Jesus, Thinking, Tests

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• In the United States, rising esteem for the military in uniform corresponds to the growing militarization of the society as a whole. All of this despite repeated revelations of the illegality and immorality of the military's own incarceration systems, from Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib, whose systematic practices border on if not actually constitute torture.

  Michael Hardt

  Military, Practice, United States

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• That was like the moment of revelation for me that in fact we are not the lunatic fringe.

  Jill Stein

  Facts, Moments, Fringe

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• There is going to be an awakening energy, a remembering and understanding. A lot of very simple revelations will move through individuals during the seminar. It's a very gentle, but powerful and empowering, process suitable for everybody who comes to this process.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Powerful, Moving, Simple

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• There will be revelations of truth and understanding about our role within the universes, and we will start navigating with the galactic community and with other life form energies in a much more precise way, much more of a communion with those energies in accord with the acceleration that is happening on the planet.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Community, Understanding, Roles

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I think that 99% of the snipers who take shots at me from electronic foxholes also realize they could never withstand the sort of public disparagement, nor the revelation of so many personal details, that I've endured for years and still remain as impenitent, obnoxious, and ready to argue all critics into the dirt as I am. I think this also jacks up their hatred level, because they realize they'd never be so strong-willed.

  Jim Goad

  Strong, Thinking, Years

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I would like to say something deeper, but for me, I saw a production of "Fences" in Rhode Island and a fabulous actress played Rose, but when she first came on the stage she was mad. You could just see it. She was all, "Troy stop!" So by the time you get to the revelation scene, I didn't think she loved him, so there was no loss. I think that the real tragedy and the real drama or the thing that makes you lean in is to see the love, to see the commitment. To see the fact that Rose is invested in this marriage no matter what.

  Viola Davis

  Real, Drama, Commitment

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• What I am skeptical about is the idea that whatever wonderful revelation does come in the science of the future, it will turn out to be one of the particular historical religions that people happen to have dreamed up.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ideas, People, Historical

  Source: inters.org

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• Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

  Richard Dawkins

  Reason, Components

  Source: inters.org

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• The surveillance revelations are critically important because they revealed that our rights are being redefined in secret, by secret courts that were never intended to have that role - without the consent of the public, without even the awareness of the majority of our political representatives.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Political, Secret

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Look at the reactions of liberal governments to the surveillance revelations during the last years. In the United States, we've got this big debate, but we've got official paralysis - because they're the ones who had their hand caught most deeply in the cookie jar.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Hands, Years

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• Many of our ally states don't have these constitutional protections - in the UK, in New Zealand, in Australia. They've lost the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure without probable cause. All of those countries, in the wake of these surveillance revelations, rushed through laws that were basically ghostwritten by the National Security Agency to enable mass surveillance without court oversight, without all of the standard checks and balances that one would expect.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Agency, Law

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• When we think in the context of the last decade's infringements upon personal liberty and the last year's revelations, it's not about surveillance. It's about liberty.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Years, Liberty

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• It's fascinating to see how things have changed. Basically, every time the US government gets off the soapbox of the Sunday-morning talk shows, the average American's support for the surveillance revelations grows.

  Edward Snowden

  Morning, Sunday, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Since the revelations, we have seen a massive sea change in the technological basis and makeup of the Internet.

  Edward Snowden

  Makeup, Sea, Internet

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• A political decision has been made not to irritate the intelligence community. The spy agencies are really embarrassed, they're really sore - the revelations really hurt their mystique. The last ten years, they were getting the Zero Dark Thirty treatment - they're the heroes. The surveillance revelations bring them back to Big Brother kind of narratives, and they don't like that at all.

  Edward Snowden

  Hurt, Brother, Zero

  "Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview". Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was the moral moment for physicists. Mass surveillance is the same moment for computer scientists, when they realize that the things they produce can be used to harm a tremendous number of people.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Numbers, People

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• At the trial of Chelsea Manning, the government could point to no case of specific damage that had been caused by the massive revelation of classified information. The charges are a reaction to the government's embarrassment more than genuine concern about these activities, or they would substantiate what harms were done.

  Edward Snowden

  Genuine Concern, Government, Information

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record quotes from anonymous officials who have an ax to grind, not a single US official, not a single representative of the United States government, has ever pointed to a single case of individualized harm caused by these revelations. This, despite the fact that former NSA director Keith Alexander said this would cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation.

  Edward Snowden

  Years, Nsa, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.

  William Gibson

  Beautiful, Fashion, Men

  Source: craphound.com

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• [James] Baldwin was a revelation for me, the kind of revelation that follows you all your life because you can go back to it. It's not just about stories. It's about philosophy. It's about criticizing the world. It's about deconstructing the world around you.

  Raoul Peck

  Philosophy, Stories, World

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• Marriage is a unified institution. Marriage means a committed, legally sanctioned relationship between a man and a woman. That's what it means. That's what it means in the revelations. That's what it means in the secular law. You cannot have that marriage coexisting institutionally with something else called same-gender marriage. It simply is a definitional impossibility.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Mean, Men, Law

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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