Category: philosopher
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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
Noam Chomsky
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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that was followed by economic sanctions and other measures – sometimes officials, countries, cities, towns – some organized by popular movements.
Noam Chomsky
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
Thomas Carlyle
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We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
Henry David Thoreau
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
Francis Bacon
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Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
Michel de Montaigne