Richard Flanagan Quote

Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.

Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.

Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bomb...

He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:

There are 2 kinds of fighters: those who fight because they hate, and those who fight because they love.

In the end, it all comes down to the Blood...

There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be an Answer.

You must be a light unto yourself.

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for a...