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#1

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history

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#2

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought

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#3

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain

tags: history

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#4

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
― Michael Crichton

tags: history

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#5

“When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu

tags: class-struggle, war

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#6

“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

tags: advice, enemies, foolishness, friends, friendship, strategy, war, wisdom

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#7

“War is over ... If you want it.”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, fighting, peace, war

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#8

“How is it possible to have a civil war?”
― George Carlin

tags: euphemism, funny, humor, terminology, war

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#9

“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: benefit, war

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#10

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom

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#11

“Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually.”
― Robert Harris, Pompeii

tags: civilization, man-vs-nature

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#12

“Everyone owes nature a death.”
― Sigmund Freud

tags: death, nature, nature-of-man, parting

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#13

“Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.”
― Gary Steiner, Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship

tags: animals, domestication, injustice, justice, morality, oppression, power, silence, slavery, tragedy, veganism, violence

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#14

“Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: domestication, manhood, men

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#16

“Civil wars, just like the reign of terror, are but the accelerated domestication of a people by the covert powers. - On Domestication”
― Lamine Pearlheart

tags: civil-war, covert, coverups, domestication, reign-of-terror, terror, terrorism, terrorist

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#17

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: life, nature, philosophy

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#18

“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”
― John Marsden, The Dead of Night

tags: ignorance, nature

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#19

“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”
― Jim Morrison

tags: control, media, thinking

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#20

“Man is the cruelest animal.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: animals, cruelty, evil, man

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#21

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

tags: animals, cruelty, mankind

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#22

“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
― Mark Twain

tags: animals, cats, dogs, grace, reticence

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#23

“The more we try to control nature, the more imbalanced our world becomes.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1

tags: man-and-nature, nature, wildlife

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#24

“Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: monkey, pain, pointless, sacrifice, space

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#25

“Politics: “Poli” a Latin word meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures".”
― Myron Fagan

tags: corruption, democracy, dishonesty, politicians, politics

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#26

“The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer.”
― Paula Poundstone

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