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#1

“A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.”
― Guy de Maupassant

#2

“...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.”
― Guy de Maupassant, Complete Works

tags: music

152 likes

#3

“The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.”
― Stanley Kubrick

94 likes

#4

“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
― Kevin Alfred Strom

85 likes

#5

“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.”
― Chris Hedges

142 likes

#6

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

44347 likes

#7

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi

tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent

3431 likes

#8

“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

tags: introspection, loquacity, remaining-silent, reticence, silence

1029 likes

#9

“Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.”
― Lou Holtz

tags: advice-for-daily-living, complaining, remaining-silent

584 likes

#10

“Speak only if it improves upon the silence.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: remaining-silent

481 likes

#11

“Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

tags: fashion, remaining-silent

152 likes

#12

“Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.”
― Plato

86 likes

#13

“Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: alternate-views, free-speech, freedom-of-speech

182 likes

#14

“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

#15

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

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

467 likes

#16

“How it is we have so much information, but know so little?”
― Noam Chomsky

441 likes

#17

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”
― Edward O. Wilson

tags: crisis, emotions, flaws, human-beings, humanity, humans, institutions, people, problems, technology

446 likes

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