Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general glut of bad news over which we, as citizens, have so little control.

Ruth Ozeki
Some Similar Quotes
  1. All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance. - Will Rogers

  2. Art is whatever you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan

  3. 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.... - Suzy Kassem

  4. S.M."Social Media or Social Menace?I'll leave it to you to work out. - Anthony T. Hincks

  5. Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better, but you are making them worse on the bad things they do. - Unknown

More Quotes By Ruth Ozeki
  1. I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we can’t act on knowledge, then we can’t survive without...

  2. In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.

  3. We place such crazy importance on physical appearance in our image-obsessed culture, on youth and beauty to define our sense of self-worth, that aging, by default, becomes a kind of defect, something secret and corrosive and shameful.

  4. By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.

  5. We're by-products of the mid-twentieth century", Oliver said. "Who isn't?

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