Category: philosopher
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Karl Marx
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
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Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.
Noam Chomsky
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Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
George Santayana
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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
John Ruskin
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
Michel de Montaigne
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One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think – even the activists – that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: ‘Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn’t stop the war so what’s the use of doing it again?’
Noam Chomsky
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson