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    Caitlin Moran
    “I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life-long poverty shows us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we've made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.”
    ― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
    tags: abortion, feminism, life
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    Marilyn Manson
    “We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.”
    ― Marilyn Manson
    tags: abortion, america, war
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    Sebastian Horsley
    “[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]”
    ― Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography – A Disarming Memoir in the Tradition of Byron and Wilde
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    Noël Coward
    “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
    ― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit
    tags: deceit, honesty, hypocrisy, morality, shock, top-8
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    Johnny Cash
    “I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.”
    ― Johnny Cash
    tags: black, hypocrisy, individuality, religion, status-quo
    770 likes

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    “Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.”
    ― Warren Wiersbe
    tags: diplomacy, hypocrisy, love, tact, truth, truth-telling
    590 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: benevolence, charity, generosity, hypocrisy, pets
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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    “Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer.”
    ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    tags: compassion, hypocrisy
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    O. Henry
    “All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best”
    ― O. Henry
    tags: civilization, hypocrisy, liars
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    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
    tags: blame, conduct-of-life, double-standards, hypocrisy, morality, social-norms
    177 likes

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    Max Stirner
    “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”
    ― Max Stirner
    tags: crime, government, hypocrisy, law, politics, unjust, violence
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    Criss Jami
    “The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: aggression, agree, contradiction, disagree, force, hypocrisy, intolerance, paradox, selfish, shame, teaching, timid, tolerance
    79 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: certainty, contradiction, development, discipline, freedom, hypocrisy, justification, learning, productivity, progress, proof, right, self-denial, truth, uncertainty
    25 likes

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    David Levithan
    “I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
    ― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    tags: homicide, suicide
    3525 likes

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    Seneca
    “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: perseverance, suicide, survival
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
    tags: martyrdom, suicide
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    Bill Maher
    “Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit!”
    ― Bill Maher
    tags: suicide
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    tags: animals, cruelty, mankind
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    Sam Harris
    “The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.”
    ― Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
    tags: george-w-bush, god, religion
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    Philip Pullman
    “I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.

    [Washington Post interview, 19 February 2001]”
    ― philip pullman
    tags: basis, beauty, belief, book, books, children-s-books, offense, paraphrased, philip-pullman, plot, value, wisdom, young-adult
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    Criss Jami
    “There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.”
    ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
    tags: arrogance, cocky, cognition, confidence, conviction, ego, haters, humility, minority, offense, pride, right, superiority, wrong
    396 likes

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    Thomas Hardy
    “If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
    tags: truth-telling
    295 likes

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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss
    tags: depression, pain, trauma
    5258 likes

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    John Keats
    “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
    ― John Keats, Letters of John Keats
    tags: art, depression, growth, life, pain, suffering, wisdom
    2659 likes

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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees
    tags: depression, sadness
    2459 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Upton Sinclair
    “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
    ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
    tags: darwinism, evolution, ideology, obtuseness, understanding
    1207 likes

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    Walt Whitman
    “Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: change
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    Georges Bataille
    “I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
    ― Georges Bataille, Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
    tags: contradiction, truth
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    Eoin Colfer
    “Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
    tags: confidence, humor, ignorance, knowledge
    3384 likes



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