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“The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.”
― John Rawls, A Theory of Justice

“[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“although racists voted for Trump, the majority of Trump voters are not racist. They are people who feel threatened by their country’s rapid economic, technological, ethnic and cultural change. This is why older white men supported Trump: they were trying to preserve their world, a world they saw disappearing day by day, where immigration was the most visible sign that their neighbours were no longer who they used to be.”
― Manuel Castells, Rupture: The Crisis of Liberal Democracy

“What's done cannot be undone.”
― William Shakespeare , Macbeth

“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Let every man be master of his time.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“Of all the wonders that I have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
(Act II, Scene 2)”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“I was born free as Caesar; so were you”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Who is it that can tell me who I am?”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”
― Willilam Shakespeare, King Lear

“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“I am a man more sinned against than sinning”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“In jest, there is truth.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“The worst is not, so long as we can say, "This is the worst.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear