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#1

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: atheism, organized-religion, religion

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#2

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: history, lies, lying, propoganda, rewriting-history, self-deception

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#3

“You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon's Memoirs

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#4

“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: humor, politics, stupidity

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#5

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: enemies, mistakes, strategy

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#6

“Imagination governs the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: art, imagination

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#7

“This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.”
― Susan Jacoby, The Age of American Unreason

tags: anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism, facts, fantasy, intelligence, science, tolerance

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#8

“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”
― Mikhail Bakunin

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#9

“Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and 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

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#10

“Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities

tags: bounds, enslavement, error, false-belief, freedom, freedom-of-thought, imprisonment

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#11

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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#12

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices First Series

tags: diplomacy, love, outrage

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#13

“I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: First Series

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#14

“Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

tags: aphorism, philosophy, social-criticism

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#15

“No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.”
― Karl Popper

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#16

“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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#17

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

tags: qotd

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#18

“During the two months of preproduction, I did two or three hours a day of exercise to get in shape for the role.”
― Rutger Hauer, All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners

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#19

“The best fighter is never angry.”
― Lao Tzu

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#20

“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: happiness, satisfaction, serenity

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#21

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, whiskey

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#22

“The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.”
― H.L. Mencken, A Little Book In C Major

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#23

“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.”
― H. L. Mencken, A Little Book In C Major

tags: humor, philosophy, truth

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#24

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
― H.L. Mencken, A Little Book In C Major

tags: democracy

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#25

“A true revolutionary should be ready to perish in the process”
― Maximilien Robespierre

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#26

“Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.”
― Voltaire, Traité sur la tolérance, à l'occasion de la mort de Jean Calas

tags: freedom-of-thought, independence-of-thought, thinking, tolerance, voltaire

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#27

“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
― Voltaire

tags: god, voltaire

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#28

“You women have more holes than swiss cheese.”
― Charles Bukowski, Poems and Insults

tags: asshole, assholes, bukowski, oral-sex, pussy, sex, women

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#29

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humor

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