Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.
Noam Chomsky
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
Henri Nouwen
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle
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It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‘What the hell am I doing?’
Steven Wright
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
Lou Holtz
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We do not need the empire to give us anything.
Fidel Castro
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You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.
Noam Chomsky
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell
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