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    Peter Singer
    “All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.”
    ― Peter Singer
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    Franklin Veaux
    “If the idea of dating someone doesn't prompt an enthusiastic "Fuck yes!" then the answer is no. Ambivalence has little place in romance.”
    ― Franklin Veaux, More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory
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    Pythagoras
    “As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”
    ― Pythagoras
    tags: compassion, love, peace, vegan, vegetarian
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    George Orwell
    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical
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    Terence McKenna
    “The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation”
    ― Terence Mckenna
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    Noam Chomsky
    “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression
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    John Stuart Mill
    “Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.”
    ― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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    Aldous Huxley
    “A love of nature keeps no factories busy.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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    Ram Dass
    “You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.”
    ― Ram Dass, Be Here Now
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Who said nights were for sleep?”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: career, companionship
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    John Locke
    “Revolt is the right of the people”
    ― John Locke
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    Socrates
    “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
    ― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates
    tags: contentment, philosophy
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    Socrates
    “I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

    [As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment]”
    ― Socrates
    tags: cosmopolitan, cosmopolitanism, world-citizenship
    479 likes

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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.”
    ― Simone DeBeauvoir
    tags: anti-oppression
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: america, freedom, human-rights, inspirational, justice, peace, pride, righteousness, stream, water
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: politics
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    Noam Chomsky
    “It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
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    Noam Chomsky
    “power that isn’t really justified by the will of the governed should be dismantled.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, On Anarchism
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: dirty, funny, logo, sex
    6872 likes

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    Salvador Dalí
    “An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.”
    ― Salvador Dali, The Secret Life Of Salvador Dali
    tags: elegance, women
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: affection, amity, love
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
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    Aaron Swartz
    “a piece of knowledge, unlike a piece of physical property, can be shared by large groups of people without making anybody poorer.”
    ― Aaron Swartz, The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
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