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    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books, castle, self
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    José Saramago
    “Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
    ― Jose Saramago
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    José Saramago
    “We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.”
    ― José Saramago
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    Noam Chomsky
    “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression
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    Noam Chomsky
    “Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    tags: education, homeschooling, ignorance, public-education
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    Noam Chomsky
    “I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: philosophy
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    Noam Chomsky
    “For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
    tags: crime, double-standards, hypocrisy, politics, power, war-crimes
    704 likes

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    Noam Chomsky
    “The more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
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    John Pilger
    “The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies — socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor — and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.”
    ― John Pilger
    tags: corporatism, democracy, politics
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    José Saramago
    “If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
    ― José Saramago, Blindness
    tags: regret, regrets, sincerity
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    Eça de Queirós
    “Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently, and for the same reason.”
    ― Eça de Queirós
    tags: diapers, politics
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
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    António Vieira
    “Credes, mortais, que há de haver juízo? Uma de duas é certa: ou o não credes, ou o não tendes.”
    ― Padre António Vieira
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    Luís António Silvério Garcia
    “Westerners do not know what is going on in Venezuela because westerners simply refuse to know what is going on in Venezuela and prefer to believe in a parallel reality. Yes, believe, that's the word, 'to believe', as the opposite of 'to
    know'.”
    ― Luís António Silvério Garcia, VENEZUELA: Westerners have lost the ability to reason!
    tags: interference, intervention, us, venezuela, west, westerners
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    Lin Yutang
    “Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.”
    ― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
    tags: busy, chinese-philosopher, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, wise
    140 likes

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    Eugene V. Debs
    “I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.”
    ― Eugene Debs, Writings of Eugene V. Debs
    tags: anti-militarism, anti-nationalism, compassion, cosmopolitan, humanity, universal-love
    263 likes

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    Eugene V. Debs
    “I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
    ― Eugene Debs
    tags: aristocracy, capitalism, feudalism, inequality, justice, labor, poverty, wealth
    523 likes

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    Eugene V. Debs
    “In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”
    ― Eugene Victor Debs
    tags: authoritarianism, deception, exploitation, fundamentalism, nationalism, oppression, patriotism, religion, totalitarianism, tyranny
    505 likes

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    Desmond Tutu
    “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
    ― Desmond Tutu (Foreword)
    tags: bullying, dissent, moral-courage, protest
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    Samora Machel
    “Almost everyone know the G3 gun. In the hands of the enemy the G3 is used to oppress and slaughter the people, but we capture a G3, it becomes an instrument for liberating the people, for punishing those who slaughter the people. It is the same gun, but the content has changed because those who use it have different aims, different objectives.”
    ― Samora Machel, Mozambique: Sowing the seeds of revolution
    tags: revolution
    5 likes



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