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#1

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

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#2

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
― Epictetus

tags: anxiety, mankind

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#3

“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
― Epictetus

tags: history, humility, philosophy

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#4

“First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.”
― Epictetus

tags: motivational

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#5

“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
― Epictetus

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#6

“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.”
― Epictetus

tags: self-deprecating, self-deprecating-humor, self-deprecation

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#7

“Only the educated are free.”
― Epictetus

tags: education

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#8

“It's a battle of those who know how to think against those who know how to hate.”
― Arundhati Roy, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction

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#9

“Indians who valorize their own struggle for independence from British rule and virtually worship those who led it are for the most part strangely opaque to Kashmiris who are fighting for the same thing.”
― Arundhati Roy, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.

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#10

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions

tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth

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#11

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought

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#12

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

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#13

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

tags: birds, freedom, friends, friendship, letting-go

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#14

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela

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#15

“Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: fascism, irresponsibility, nationalism

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#16

“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”
― Upton Sinclair

tags: capitalism, fascism, upton-sinclair

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#17

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power”
― Benito Mussolini

tags: corporate, corporatism, fascism, mussolini, state

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#18

“Are you a communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

tags: civil-war, communism, fascism, spain, war

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#19

“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.”
― Stefan Molyneux

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, collectivism, communism, countries, delusion, democracy, evil, fascism, freedom, government, knowledge, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nationalism, nations, nazis, patriotism, philosophy, politics, psychopath, rationality, religion, self-esteem, self-knowledge, socialism, states, statism, superstition, taxation, theft, voluntaryism

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#20

“Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal transformation. But if man, man who is endowed with reason and kindness, should conquer, then Fascism must perish, and those who have submitted to it will once again become people.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

tags: fascism, humanity, nazism

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#21

“Behind every fascism there is a failed revolution.”
― Walter Benjamin

tags: disalination, fascism, liberalism, political-philosophy, revolution

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#22

“Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
― Mae West, The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said

tags: bachelorhood, double-entendre, empowerment, freedom, independence, institutions, marriage, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, singles

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#23

“The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other”
― Slavoj Zizek

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#24

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

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#25

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage

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#26

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust

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#27

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: dance, music

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#28

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul

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#29

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos

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#30

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way

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