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    Alan Moore
    “People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: democracy, equality, government, misattributed
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    Aldous Huxley
    “There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: dictatorship, government, wisodm
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    “The genius inside a person wants activity. It’s connected to the stars; it’s connected to a spark and it wants to burn and it wants to make and it wants to create and it has gifts to give. That is the nature of inner genius.”
    ― Michael Meade
    tags: creativity, generosity, genius, inner-gift, vocation
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  • #5
    “Life roars at us when it wants or needs us to change. Ultimately, change means trans formation, a shifting from one form to another that involves the magic of creation. The trouble with entrenched oppositions is that each side becomes increasingly one-sided and single minded and unable to grow or meaningfully change. In the blindness of fear and the willfulness of abstract beliefs, people forget or reject the unseen yet essential unity that underlies all the oppositions in life.”
    ― Michael Meade, Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss
    tags: change, polarization, transformation, unity
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    “Becoming a genuine individual requires learning the oppositions within oneself. Those who fail or refuse to face the oppositions within have no choice but to find enemies to project upon. Enemy simply means a "not-friend;" unless a person deals with the not-friend within they require enemies around them.”
    ― Michael Meade
    tags: introspection
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  • #7
    C.G. Jung
    “The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    C.G. Jung
    “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
    ― Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
    tags: consciousness, darkness, enlightenment, light
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    Robert Higgs
    “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am -- not stuck in the middle, but hovering above the entire farcical spectrum, weeping as I behold my fellow man's devotion to political illusion and self-destruction.”
    ― Robert Higgs
    tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, evil, freedom, gang, government, individualism, knowledge, libertarian, liberty, mafia, matrix, philosophy, politics, rationality, reason, self-knowledge, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, thieves, truth, useful-idiots, voluntaryism, voting
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: darkness
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  • #11
    “The sun watches what I do, but the moon knows all my secrets.”
    ― J M Wonderland
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  • #12
    Ambrose Bierce
    “All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Writings Of Ambrose Bierce
    tags: delusion, humor, lunatics, philosopher
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  • #13
    “...people who struggle against tyranny are more psychologically healthy than those who are docile and simply conform to current ways of thinking...there is much evidence that some of the most creative people in history were driven individuals who were terribly unhappy and out of sync with their social context. Creativity itself is a form of deviant behavior that requires individuals to break from usual assumptions and understandings in developing entirely new perspectives and approaches.”
    ― David Mechanic
    tags: enlightening
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  • #14
    “Time is like the ocean; you can only hold a little in your hands.”
    ― Josh Pyke
    tags: the-ocean, time
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