Category: philosopher
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
Noam Chomsky
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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
John Ruskin
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
Michel de Montaigne
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Once you label me you negate me.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.
Rumi
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Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.
Noam Chomsky
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By indignities men come to dignities.
Francis Bacon
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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Karl Marx
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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche