Category: philosopher
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Thomas Carlyle
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Israel is a pretty crazy state.
Noam Chomsky
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Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
Confucius
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Karl Marx
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison – they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.
Noam Chomsky
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The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
George Santayana
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
Michel de Montaigne