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  • #1
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • #2
    Bessel van der Kolk
    “Scared animals return home, regardless of whether home is safe or frightening.”
    Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

  • #3
    Franz Kafka
    “I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face”
    Franz Kafka

  • #4
    Nelson Mandela
    “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
    Nelson Mandela

  • #5
    Alejandro Jodorowsky
    “Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”
    Alejandro Jodorowsky

  • #6
    Blaise Pascal
    “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
    Blaise Pascal, Pensées

  • #7
    George Orwell
    “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #8
    Emil M. Cioran
    “Bach's music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded as a complete failure. Without Bach, God would be a complete second-rate figure.”
    Emil Cioran

  • #9
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it,”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #11
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #12
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
    Marcus Aurelius

  • #13
    Desmond Tutu
    “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
    Desmond Tutu (Foreword)

  • #14
    Eugene V. Debs
    “While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
    Eugene V. Debs

  • #15
    Judith Lewis Herman
    “It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering.”
    Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

  • #16
    Malcolm X
    “A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
    Malcolm X

  • #17
    Madeline Miller
    “He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #18
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • #19
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #20
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “If the suffering of children goes to swell the sum of sufferings which was necessary to pay for truth, then I protest that the truth is not worth such a price.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #21
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #22
    Howard Zinn
    “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
    Howard Zinn

  • #23
    “Christianity started out in Palestine as a fellowship; it moved to Greece and became a philosophy; it moved to Italy and became an institution; it moved to Europe and became a culture; it came to America and became an enterprise.”
    Sam Pascoe



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