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#1

“Broadcasting is being replaced by narrowcasting. The difference is that broadcasting speaks to a mixed public, exposing them to a range of views. Narrowcasting speaks to a targeted public and exposes them only to facts and opinions that support their prejudices. It fragments a public into a set of sects of the like-minded.”
― Jonathan Sacks, Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence

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#2

“In a world without forgiveness, evil begets evil, harm generates harm, and there is no way short of exhaustion or forgetfulness of breaking the sequence. Forgiveness breaks the chain. It introduces into the logic of interpersonal encounter the unpredictability of grace. It represents a decision not to do what instinct and passion urge us to do. It answers hate with a refusal to hate, animosity with generosity. Few more daring ideas have ever entered the human situation. Forgiveness means that we are not destined endlessly to replay the grievances of yesterday. It is the ability to live with the past without being held captive by the past. It would not be an exaggeration to say that forgiveness is the most compelling testimony to human freedom.”
― Jonathan Sacks

tags: forgiveness, humanity, inspirational, kindness, rabbi

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#3

“I asked them why when they persecute men, for religion or colour it was seen by the world as oppression and when they persecute women, it was dismissed as tradition.”
― Emer Martin, Baby Zero

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#4

“Human beings do not live forever, Reuven. We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye?

I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. Do you understand what I am saying? A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

It is hard work to fill one's life with meaning. That I do not think you understand yet. A life filled with meaning is worthy of rest. I want to be worthy of rest when I am no longer here.”
― Chaim Potok, The Chosen

tags: literature

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#5

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― Salman Rushdie

tags: banned-books, censorship, free-speech, intellectual-freedom

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#6

“Being able to imagine and understand their point of view does not mean I have to adopt it. It does, however open the possibility that, eventually, adding another's point of view may challenge my opinions or perhaps reveal misconceptions, but I don't have to change or replace it in the moment. Listening to another's story is not a declaration of defeat.”
― Noa Baum, A Land Twice Promised: An Israeli Woman's Quest for Peace

tags: holocaust, inspirational, israel, palestine, writing

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#7

“In Germany they came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up
because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left
to speak up for me.”
― Martin Niemöller

tags: cowardice

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#14

“One who is not in my image is nonetheless in God’s image”
― jonathan sacks, Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence

tags: judaism, peace, philosophy-of-life, religion, violence

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#15

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#18

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

tags: psychology, science, social-behavior

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#20

“Multiculturalism should not mean that we tolerate another culture’s intolerance. If we do in fact support diversity, women’s rights, and gay rights, then we cannot in good conscience give Islam a free pass on the grounds of multicultural sensitivity.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

tags: diversity, human-rights, intolerance, islam, multiculturalism

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#21

“He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.”
― V.S. Ramachandran

tags: arrogance, hypocrisy, phantoms-in-the-brain, religion

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#22

“We will consider every hand who will try to take our weapons, as an Israeli hand.”
― Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

tags: hezbollah, israel, terrorism, zionism

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#22

“The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.

Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese--and no one says a word about refugees.

But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace.

Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.”
― Eric Hoffer

tags: algeria, arabs, arnold-j-toynbee, arnold-joseph-toynbee, arnold-toynbee, chinese, displacement, french, greeks, israel, jews, nazis, poland, refugees, russia, turkey

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#25

“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”
― Alice Roosevelt Longworth

tags: gossip, humor, slander

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#28

“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: afterlife, atheism, humanism, secularism

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#30

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism

tags: atheism, philosophy

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#32

“If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it.
(as quoted by Tony Judt)”
― Albert Camus

tags: camus, ethics, philosophy, tony-judt

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#33

“The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.”
― jack bruce

tags: anti-semitism, hatred, israel, jews, racism, zionism

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#36

“I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.”
― Quentin Crisp

tags: absurdism, atheism, humour, inspirational, prayer

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#40

“I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.”
― Ron White

tags: humor, humour, self-knowledge

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#42

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
― Epicurus

tags: atheism, religion

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#44

“If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”
― Tacitus

tags: anarchism, authority, paranoia

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#45

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”
― Doris Lessing

tags: learning

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#46

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

tags: goodness, human-nature, humour, philosophy

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#47

“Hatred is self-punishment. Do you think they're feeling bad because you hate them?”
― Michelle Cohen Corasanti, The Almond Tree

tags: facts-of-life, hate

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#48

“YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf,
I am the smaller one on its upper side,'
said the dewdrop to the lake.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

tags: humor, humour, inspirational, philosophy, stray-birds

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#49

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: advice, epigram, humor

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#50

“When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?”
― Quentin Crisp, The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp

tags: atheism, idiocy

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#51

“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

tags: affection, atheism, cats, dogs, food, god, pets, religion, shelter, water

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