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“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

tags: atheism, philosophy

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“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: bible, christianity, god, organized-religion, religion, yahweh

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“You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.”
― Naomi Klein

tags: america, freedom, image, impressions, peace, war

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#4

“People without memory are putty.”
― Naomi Klein

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#5

“Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.”
― Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

tags: violence, war

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#6

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

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#7

“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.”
― William Ralph Inge

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#8

“This machine kills fascists.”
― Woody Guthrie

tags: folk-music, guitar, music, power-of-music

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#9

“Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”
― Woody Guthrie

tags: genius

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#10

“I know the police cause you trouble
They cause trouble everywhere
But when you die and go to heaven
You find no policeman there”
― Woody Guthrie

tags: government, hobos, police-brutality, social-commentary

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“The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their music and we have ours. Theirs, the wasted songs of a superstitious nightmare. And without their music and ideological miscarriages to compare our songs of freedom to, we'd not have any opposite to compare music with --- and like the drifting wind, hitting against no obstacle, we'd never know its speed, its power....”
― Woody Guthrie

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#12

“All of you cowboys, fight for your land.”
― Woody Guthrie

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#13

“Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?”
― Robert Coles

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#14

“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
― Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, liberty, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism, utilitarianism

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#15

“Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.”
― Leon Trotsky

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism

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#16

“Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.”
― Leon Trotsky

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#17

“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”
― Leon Trotsky

tags: war

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#18

“Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”
― Leon Trotsky, Diary in Exile, 1935

tags: cynicism, life, misery, weakness

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#19

“In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.”
― Leon Trotsky

tags: communism

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#20

“Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man.”
― Leon Trotsky

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#21

“As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.”
― Leon Trotsky

tags: ethics, morality, politics, violence, wage-labor

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#22

“Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!”
― Leon Trotsky, The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution

tags: political, proletariat

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“The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception.”
― Leon Trotsky

tags: morality

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#24

“Lenin refused to recognise moral norms established by slave-owners for their slaves and never observed by the slave-owners themselves; he called upon the Proletariat to extend the class struggle into the moral sphere too. Who fawns before the precepts established by the enemy will never vanquish that enemy!”
― Leon Trotsky

tags: lenininism, morality

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#25

“Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. ”
― Leon Trotsky

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#26

“Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.”
― leon trotsky

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#27

“Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.”
― Leon Trotsky

tags: fascism, jacobin-politics, politics

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#28

“Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.”
― Leon Trotsky

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#29

“The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.”
― Leon Trotsky

tags: united-states-of-america

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#30

“...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.”
― Leon trotsky

tags: capitalism

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