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“The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

“Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

“Μιλάω για τον παντοτινό ελληνο-ελληνικό πόλεμο. Γενικώς ο διαφορετικός είναι μισητό πρόσωπο. Η αρχή του ρατσισμού παραμένει απλή: ή ανήκεις στο κοπάδι, ή σε σκοτώνομε..”
― Ηλίας Πετρόπουλος, Η ονοματοθεσία οδών και πλατειών: Μελέτη προς υποβοήθησιν του έργου των αγραμμάτων δημοτικών συμβούλων

“Η επίσημη ιστορία γράφεται τόσο στις μικρές αγγελίες στις εφημερίδες των συνοικεσίων όσο και στα πεδία των μαχών και στα ημερήσια δελτία των χρηματιστηριών.”
― Ηλίας Πετρόπουλος

“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4

“Whole columns are devoted to parliamentary debates and to political intrigues; while the vast everyday life of a nation appears only in the columns given to economic subjects, or in the pages devoted to reports of police and law cases. And when you read the newspapers, your hardly think of the incalculable number of beings—all humanity, so to say—who grow up and die, who know sorrow, who work and consume, think and create outside the few encumbering personages who have been so magnified that humanity is hidden by their shadows, enlarged by our ignorance.”
― Pyotr Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.”
― Peter Kropotkin, In Russian and French Prisons

“Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.”
― André Gide

“While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.”
― Vladimir Lenin, Estado y revolución

“Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta