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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Mikhail Bakunin
    “If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.”
    ― Mikhail Bakunin
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    Mikhail Bakunin
    “If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.”
    ― Mikhail Bakunin
    tags: anarchism, anarchist, chomsky, communism-patriotism-inspiration, lenin, leninism, libertarian, libertarian-socialism, libertarianism, marx, marxism, marxist, politics, socialism, state-socialism
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    Mikhail Bakunin
    “People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
    -- Circular Letter to My Friends in Italy”
    ― Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin
    tags: humor, inspirational, religion
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    Mikhail Bakunin
    “When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called the People's Stick.”
    ― Mikhail Bakunin
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    Mikhail Bakunin
    “The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.”
    ― Mikhail Bakunin
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: loneliness, solitude
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
    It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom, life, personal-responsibility
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom, life-experience, self-determination
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
    ― Jean Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “We are our choices.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: choices
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  • #13
    “I shall see.”
    ― Louis XIV (King of France)
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    Alexander Hamilton
    “The masses are asses.”
    ― Alexander Hamilton
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    Marquis de Sade
    “Religions are the cradles of despotism.”
    ― Marquis de Sade
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    Marquis de Sade
    “Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.”
    ― marquis de sade
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    Marquis de Sade
    “In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.”
    ― Marquis de Sade
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    Quentin Crisp
    “Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.”
    ― Quentin Crisp
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    Quentin Crisp
    “The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.”
    ― Quentin Crisp
    tags: life, teenagers
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    Quentin Crisp
    “When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?”
    ― Quentin Crisp, The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp
    tags: atheism, idiocy
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    Quentin Crisp
    “If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.”
    ― Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant; How To Become A Virgin; Resident Alien
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    Thomas Paine
    “I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

    All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
    tags: church, creed, enslave, greek, human-invention, jewish, monopolize, power, profit, protestant, religion, roman, turkish
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    Thomas Paine
    “I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
    tags: christianity, religion, skepticism
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    Thomas Paine
    “My own mind is my own church.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
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    Thomas Paine
    “Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as a means of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
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    Charles Bradlaugh
    “Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.”
    ― Charles Bradlaugh
    tags: liberty
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    Isaac Asimov
    “I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: agnostic, atheism, atheist, belief, emotion, humanist, interview, knowledge, reason, religion, respect, science
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    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “Communism is as crude an attempt to explain society and the individual as if a surgeon were to perform his delicate operations with a meat ax. All that is subtle in human psychology and in the structure of society (which is even more complex), all of this is reduced to crude economic processes. The whole created being—man—is reduced to matter. It is characteristic that Communism is so devoid of arguments that it has none to advance against its opponents in our Communist countries. It lacks arguments and hence there is the club, the prison, the concentration camp, and insane asylums with forced confinement.”
    ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Warning to the West
    tags: communism, tyranny
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “All Communist Parties, upon attaining power, have become completely merciless. But at the stage before they achieve power, it is necessary to use disguises.”
    ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Warning to the West
    tags: communism
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