Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.
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Criss Jami
Songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic.. whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition...
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Bob Dylan
We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong....
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Suzy Kassem
A conscious human is driven by their conscience, not popular opinion.
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Suzy Kassem
As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I...
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Jason Najum
It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim
So this needs to be said, and so I will try to say it
After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.
Everything around me affirmed there was nothing else I could do — yet everything inside me cried that I was not doing enough.
I avoided one-on-one situations, eye contact, and healthy relationships. Instead I took refuge in drinking too much, cheap sex, and sarcasm.
