Latest Dar Williams Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can effect change.

  Dar Williams

  Trying, Movement, Structure

  Source: progressive.org

• Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I'll write about what I write about and assume that I'm being offered the opportunity to illuminate something important. But when you think you are too important, you become some sort of fascist.

  Dar Williams

  Believe, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: progressive.org

• I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.

  Dar Williams

  Religious, Government, Double Standard

  Source: progressive.org

• I came out of that and said I don't want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.

  Dar Williams

  Optimistic, Optimism, Feelings

  Source: progressive.org

• Every once in a while I check and I say, do I still believe in God? And the answer is absolutely yes. And then I think, I suppose I should go to church now. But after going to so many churches in my life and trying to go with the flow with so many denominations, Eastern and Western, I don't really feel I need to go to church at all.

  Dar Williams

  Believe, Thinking, Church

  Source: progressive.org

• I am one of those sort of "lesser" types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn't have made it on their own if other people hadn't helped them. A straightforward capitalist society would've cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women.

  Dar Williams

  Cutting, People, My Family

  Source: progressive.org

• What we need to do is pull the rug out so billionaires in our country wake up one morning and say, wow, 80 percent of the country has a solar panel, and we can't make our billions anymore because other people are making millions, but not billions, on alternative energy that doesn't require war. Suddenly, the war-making machinery is not necessary.

  Dar Williams

  Country, Morning, War

  Source: progressive.org

• Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.

  Dar Williams

  Smart, Envy, Use

  Source: progressive.org

• Some of us have such incredible things that can keep us from acting. We have the luxury of drinking such good wine, and having such good information at our fingertips. I can look up anything on my computer. And I can call any friend at the drop of a hat on my cell phone. And I can have beautiful clothing and great food in a world where people are being tortured. I have some responsibility for that.

  Dar Williams

  Beautiful, Drinking, Wine

  Source: progressive.org

• Hegemony is not defined by rivers or conventional borders - it's dominance, it's influence. So we get to decide in our hearts, are we in Iraq to help restore something, or are we there to establish dominance? How can you torture people and say, well, that's just a few bad apples in our culture?

  Dar Williams

  Heart, Rivers, Iraq

  Source: progressive.org

• The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common.

  Dar Williams

  Empires, Foundation, Looks

  Source: progressive.org

• Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and what's going on right now. They all have had to apply more and more harsh rhetoric of superiority and divine right to justify the building of hegemony.

  Dar Williams

  Past, Divine Right, Hegemony

  Source: progressive.org

• In terms of our democracy, we are sort of shrugging our shoulders and saying, oh dear, Guantánamo, that's so awful, that's so awful, but it's here. The pendulum usually swings from left to right and then right to left, but there are so many people in power who have taken the pendulum and just pinned it to the right that there is a fear that it's never going to swing back.

  Dar Williams

  Taken, Swings, People

  Source: progressive.org

• I would encourage people to bridge broadly and creatively in their communities, not just because that creates the most fun and resiliency, but also because it creates the most points of access for people to be part of the community, which is what democracy is at its best.

  Dar Williams

  Fun, Bridges, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

• When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.

  Dar Williams

  Mistake, Government, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

• I've watched towns and cities evolve and become very resilient, and fun, and unique, and prosperous on their own terms. And the secret is bridging. It's when the local church has a fun clothing swap fundraiser with a temple, and then the next year they bring in the mosque.

  Dar Williams

  Fun, Unique, Cities

  Source: www.progressive.org

• I think we're coming to a place where we're saying all war is wrong. We might even learn something about the sensationalism we get caught up in with people like Donald Trump.

  Dar Williams

  War, Thinking, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

• As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

  Dar Williams

  Song, Slavery, Good Things

  Source: www.progressive.org

• It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

  Dar Williams

  Children, Slavery, Child Labor

  Source: www.progressive.org

• Slavery doesn't have any positives.

  Dar Williams

  Slavery

  Source: www.progressive.org

• When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.

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  Evolve

  Source: www.progressive.org

• The biggest difference would be made if we don't have wars to begin with.

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  War, Differences, Would Be

  Source: www.progressive.org

• I just think the reassurance and the steadiness and the hands-on kindness can make a huge difference.

  Dar Williams

  Kindness, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.progressive.org

• We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.

  Dar Williams

  Morning, Wake Up, Done

  Source: www.progressive.org

• We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much.

  Dar Williams

  Taken, Too Much, Language

  Source: www.progressive.org