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#1

“But this anti-war protest, is far from a success; it is just a placebo for the people. These peacemakers feel so satisfied, gratified; gay-gallant-and-gleeful. But they do not achieve anything acceptable, perceptible; or peaceful.”
― Joss Sheldon, 'Involution & Evolution': A rhyming anti-war novel

tags: protest, war, ww1

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#2

“God is British to the bone, and every fellow here knows it. You can't exploit him to save yourself, you blaspheming cadaverous-prig; you disgusting shambles of porcelain-skin, unwholesome-fat and puny-bones. Your blatant disregard for God's word shan't earn you any favours here!”
― Joss Sheldon, 'Involution & Evolution': A rhyming anti-war novel

tags: conscientious-objector, insults, quotes, tribunal, ww1

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#3

“This is a story about understanding overcoming compulsion, love overcoming revulsion; and oneness overcoming abuse. About the rare sort of kind-geniality, and brave-morality; which we all possess but seldom use.

A story about detractors who will be defeated, challenges which will be completed; and principles which will be proclaimed. About acts of persecution, and threats of execution; which will all be constrained.

This is the beginning of Alfred Freeman's story, the beginning of a life full of glory; and the beginning of Alfred himself. Because Alfred is being born, in his human form; with peaceful-eyes and perfect-health.”
― Joss Sheldon, 'Involution & Evolution': A rhyming anti-war novel

tags: introduction, ww1

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#4

“Alfred is taken past this broom, and enters this room; which can only be described as 'piecemeal'. It is full of pieces of fish-market paraphernalia, pieces of military-regalia; and pieces of rusted-steel.
It is full of these spiky-hooks, fishmongery-books; and saline-scalers. These bayonet-blades, grenades; and dusty loud-halers.”
― Joss Sheldon, 'Involution & Evolution': A rhyming anti-war novel

tags: description, scenery, trial, ww1

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#5

“No thanky-you; you can't overcome hatred with more hatred. Force can kill the liar but not the lie, the hater but not the hate, and the violent but not the violence. Hate begets hate, violence begets violence, and war begets war.”
― Joss Sheldon, 'Involution & Evolution': A rhyming anti-war novel

tags: conscientious-objector, defence, quote, tribunal, ww1

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#6

“For real men serve their country with random acts of kindness, not vicious acts of violence. And real soldiers have one duty, and one duty only; they have a duty to mutiny!”
― Joss Sheldon, 'Involution & Evolution': A rhyming anti-war novel

tags: anti-war, jesus, mutiny, soldiers, war

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#7

“Her face lit up; illuminated by the enlightenment of recognition and the innocence of surprise.”
― Joss Sheldon, The Little Voice

tags: innocence, reaction, surprise

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#8

“I liked all the children in my class. Back then, I think we all just tacitly assumed that we were equal. That we were all in the same boat. We didn’t really think about our different genders, races or classes. We just co-existed, like one big family.”
― Joss Sheldon, The Little Voice

tags: childhood, innocence, school

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#9

“I learned how to argue. They called it ‘Debate’. I learned how to worship. I learned how to become an eager worker and a passive consumer.
But I didn’t learn anything practical, like how to purify water, build a home, start a fire, grow food, or survive without the help of corporations.”
― Joss Sheldon, The Little Voice

tags: education, educational-philosophy, indoctrination, indoctrination-quotes, university

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#10

“I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality.”
― Joss Sheldon, The Little Voice

tags: brainwashing, indoctrination, indoctrination-quotes, peer-pressure, peer-pressures, social-psychology, workplace-culture, workplace-politics

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#11

“My parents, you see, were a little square. They cared more about being good parents in the general sense than being good parents for me. They wanted to appear normal; respectable and responsible. But they weren’t prepared to acknowledge my individual needs.”
― Joss Sheldon, The Little Voice

tags: acknowledgement, good-parents, individual-needs, parenting, parents, psychology, respectable, special-needs

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#12

“The most rebellious thing you can do is get educated. Forget what they told you in school. Get educated! I ain’t saying play by the rules. Get educated! Get educated! Get educated! Break the chains of their enslavement. Get educated! Even if you’re on the pavement. Get educated! What a weapon that your brain is. Get educated! Get educated! Get educated!” AKALA”
― Joss Sheldon, The Little Voice

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#13

“I wanted nirvana,” I explained. “I wanted death. I wanted release, any sort of release. And yet here I am, stuck in the material realm; neither enlightened, nor dead, nor free. And that hurts. It hurts so much.” It”
― Joss Sheldon, The Little Voice

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#14

“For me, dear reader, that place was purgatory incarnate; neither good nor bad, but a gateway to great rewards or even greater punishments.”
― Joss Sheldon, The Little Voice

tags: gateway, incarnate, punishment, purgatory, reader, rewards

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#15

“An hour seldom passed in which she didn’t either sneeze, pick her nose, or wipe a bogie onto her snot-encrusted sleeve. But she had such a lovely colour. That pink glow which comes with the flu used to engulf her like an aura. It suited her. She always looked so damn effervescent.”
― Joss Sheldon, The Little Voice

tags: aura, chronic-illness, color, effervescent, flu, glow, pink-glow, sick, sickness, sneeze

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#16

“Those drugs were either going to bring me nirvana or they were going to kill me. I was sure of it. And I was comfortable with it.”
― Joss Sheldon, The Little Voice

tags: addiction, comfort, comfortable, depression, drugs, intoxication, kill, nirvana, suicidal-thoughts, suicide

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#17

“You see a man drowning, you must try to save him even if you cannot swim.”
― Irena Sendler, Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project

tags: life-in-a-jar

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