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#1

“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

tags: life, meaning, universe

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#2

“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: procrastination, resistance

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#3

“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: resistance

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#4

“People don't resist change. They resist being changed.”
― Peter Senge

tags: change, resistance

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#5

“If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle

tags: 1949, courage, innokenty-volodin, resistance

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#6

“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.”
― Woodrow Wilson

tags: government, history, liberty, resistance

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#7

“It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound (whether or not that power is institutionalized). It is necessary to remember that it is first the potential oppressor within that we must resist – the potential victim within that we must rescue – otherwise we cannot hope for an end to domination, for liberation.”
― bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

tags: resistance

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#8

“Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age.”
― Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

tags: avarice

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#9

“There is no place, it seems, free from the intrusion of Man, who stretches out his hand for everything, even that which is in the air.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

tags: avarice, capitalism, greed

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#10

“Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right.”
― Derrick Bell, Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth

tags: courage, fear, self-interest

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#11

“I begin to see how a post-money society would work in practice. When we are in paid employment, we are exchanging our labour in return for money in order to live within a money-based society, nothing more. Both sides in the labour-salary exchange are motivated by self-interest. But when we volunteer our labour for a cause, for a better world, we are not so much exchanging our labour as investing it directly into the world we want to see. Notes for Utopia: there will be no money when we get there.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

tags: better-world, labour, money, moneyless, salary, self-interest, society, utopia, volunteering

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#12

“The past is what we make of it, if we know what's is good for us.”
― Simon R. Green, Drinking Midnight Wine

tags: beneficial, future, good, past, present, self-interest, us, we

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#13

“Today's ideology masquerades as pragmatism with that pragmatism reduced to the simplistic assumption that the basis of human nature is self-interest, a view which discount philanthropy, discredits altruism, with the only motive deserving of trust self-promotion and self-advancement.
This so-called pragmatism is wicked and it is doubly so because it is held up as being both realistic and a virtue. Whereas it is shallow, shabby and all too often callous.”
― Alan Bennett, Keeping On Keeping On

tags: greed, privatisation, self-interest

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#14

“Nobody does anything for the good of others; but as he pursues his own interests, he is brought to work unwittingly for the benefit of the many.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom

tags: egoism, self-interest, self-interest-quotes

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#15

“We are conscious beings always experimenting with the mystery of becoming our ultimate manifestation.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: self-actualization, self-assessment, self-awareness, self-determination, self-development, self-discovery, self-interest, self-realization

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#18

“Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: advance, advancing, affairs, betray, betrayal, commit, committed, friendships, hurt, lies, marriages, pain, relationships, sabotage, self-interest, selfish, selfishness

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#19

“I mean what does a democracy depend on? A democracy depends on the individual voter making an intelligent and rational choice for what he regards as his enlightened self-interest, in any given circumstance.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: choices, decisions, democracy, elections, political-process, self-interest, voting

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#20

“A politician is a man in his natural state”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

tags: egocentrism, egoism, egotism, egotistical, lies-politics, nature-of-things, political, political-correctness, political-philosophy, politicians, politics, self-interest, survival, survival-instinct, survival-is-the-name-of-the-game, survival-of-the-fittest, survival-quotes, survival-story, survivalism, survivalist, survive, survivor

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#21

“Games are the only force in the known universe that can get people to take actions against their self-interest, in a predictable way, without using force.”
― Gabe Zichermann

tags: games, gamification, self-interest

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#22

“Our hearts clearly see our own interests but they are completely blind to other people's interests”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

tags: egoism, egoism-quotes, egoist, egoistic-interest, greed-of-man, greed-quotes, me-first, self-interest, self-interest-quotes

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#23

“All of our relationships are based on self-interest, discrimination and a perverse need for gain.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

tags: discrimination, relationships, self-interest

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#24

“They loved their country largely because they controlled it.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

tags: elitism, patriotism, self-interest

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#25

“He [Eugène Rougon] believed exclusively in himself; where another saw reasons, Rougon possessed convictions; he subordinated everything to the incessant aggrandisement of his own ego. Despite being utterly devoid of real self-indulgence, he nevertheless indulged in secret orgies of supreme power.”
― Émile Zola, His Excellency

tags: ego, power, self-interest

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#26

“Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.”
― Bobbe Sommer

tags: egotism, happiness, modesty, opinion, precondition, regard, sef, self-destruction, success, unique

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#27

“Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.”
― Russell Brand, My Booky Wook

tags: russell-brand, self-destruction, talent

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#28

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

tags: qotd

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#29

“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Madman

tags: freedom, madman, madness, safety

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#30

“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: dimension, madness, reality, soul, understand-me

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#31

“Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.”
― Wei Hui

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#32

“You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

tags: control, emotion, feel, feelings, madness, nightmares, running-away

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