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#1

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: future

#2

“There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

tags: life

996 likes

#3

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: books

7345 likes

#4

“Phillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to be dead.”
― Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You

86 likes

#5

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humour, telekinetics

10129 likes

#6

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: classics

4754 likes

#7

“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humor, politics

2166 likes

#8

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

8553 likes

#9

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, dont you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: life, memory

735 likes

#10

“I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.”
― Quentin Tarantino

50 likes

#11

“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
― Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages

tags: family, friendship, humor

3682 likes

#12

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: atticus-finch, courage

8287 likes

#13

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

11046 likes

#14

“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
― Albert Camus

tags: absurdism, humanism

399 likes

#15

“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

376 likes

#16

“Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.”
― Jeremy Bentham

tags: ethics, happiness, misery, morality, pain, secular-morality

203 likes

#17

“Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.”
― thomas paine, Rights of Man

tags: equality, ethics, morality, rights, secular-ethics, secular-morality

529 likes

#18

“I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.”
― Aristotle

tags: law, morality, philosophy, secular-ethics, secular-morality

506 likes

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