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#1

“War is the unfolding of miscalculations.”
― Barbara Tuchman

#2

“Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

tags: greece

161 likes

#3

“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
― Hannah Arendt

419 likes

#4

“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”
― Frantz Fanon

449 likes

#5

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

5108 likes

#6

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

3444 likes

#7

“The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.”
― Hannah Arendt

131 likes

#8

“One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together.”
― William H. Armstrong

980 likes

#9

“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
― Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

tags: education, homeschooling, ignorance, public-education

705 likes

#10

“It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: america, independence, islam, united-states, us

467 likes

#11

“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

2157 likes

#12

“See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: violence

386 likes

#13

“The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill.”
― Noam Chomsky

127 likes

#14

“I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

807 likes

#15

“In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.”
― Giorgio Agamben, What Is an Apparatus? and Other Essays

14 likes

#16

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humor

22525 likes

#17

“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
― Charles Bukowski

3644 likes

#18

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

6581 likes

#19

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

13094 likes

#20

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding

3228 likes

#21

“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: participate, responsibility, stop-terrorism, terror, terrorism

773 likes

#22

“People know what they want because they know what other people want.”
― Theodor Adorno

tags: jazz

88 likes

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