Great & Meaningful Quotes
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officerripley
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"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters."
-Frederick Douglass, 1857
-Frederick Douglass, 1857
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"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." - Oscar De La Hoya
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officerripley
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"To resist radical evil...is to be a lifelong heretic."
~~Chris Hedges, from talk “The Price of Resistance” at Princeton Univ., 4/17/2017
~~Chris Hedges, from talk “The Price of Resistance” at Princeton Univ., 4/17/2017
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"We can either have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both."
~~Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1916-1939)
~~Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1916-1939)
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"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views, which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."
- Dr Who
- Dr Who
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"I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy."
~~G. M. Gilbert, chief psychologist who interviewed Nazis on trial at Nuremberg
~~G. M. Gilbert, chief psychologist who interviewed Nazis on trial at Nuremberg
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"A leader is best when the people hardly know he exists."
~~Lao Tzu (maybe)
~~Lao Tzu (maybe)
MACKTEXAS
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Wisdom from 571 BC, needed as much or more today.
used to read a lot about this guy after my sojourn in HK - he used to inspire me muchly!!
officerripley
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"Every war is a war against children."
~~Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children
~~Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children
officerripley
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“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
officerripley
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
~~from I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon by Phillip K. Dick
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"If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork."
~~Masanobu Fukuoka
~~Masanobu Fukuoka
