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#1

“He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people... I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them - a comfortable prison of his own design."

"You say this as if you envied him."

"There are worse prisons than words.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: books, escape, literature, pain, prison, reading, words

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#2

“The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: american-gods, fear, prison, relief

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#3

“That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

tags: freedom, life, prison

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#4

“That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and prisons. A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he doesn't think or feel that he's a prisoner, then he's not a prisoner. But then there are people for whom the whole planet is a prison, who see the infinite expanse of the universe, the millions of stars and galaxies that remain forever inaccessible to them. And that awareness makes them the greatest prisoners of time and space.”
― Vladimir Bartol, Alamut

tags: alamut, emptiness, faith, freedom, inspirational, life, prison, religion, slavery, studies, talk, truth, universe, women

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#5

“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bravery, god, goodness, humanity, justice, kindness, peace, suffering

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#6

“The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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#7

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

tags: belief, justice, lies, mercy, truth

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#9

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: equity, justice, laws

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#10

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara

tags: justice, social-justice

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#11

“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

tags: acquiescence, activism, free-speech, justice, principles, protest

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#12

“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

tags: crime, justice, morality, redemption

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#13

“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

tags: activism, justice, public-defense

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#14

“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
― Eugene Debs

tags: aristocracy, capitalism, feudalism, inequality, justice, labor, poverty, wealth

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#15

“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.

But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, 'whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,' and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.”
― John Adams, The Portable John Adams

tags: common-law, innocence, judicial, justice, law

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#16

“Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts.”
― bell hooks

tags: activism, feminism, justice, liberals, men, sexism, women

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#17

“Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

tags: beliefs, free-speech, freedom, guarding, guards, injustice, justice, protection

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#18

“Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: bad-laws, catholic, catholic-author, christian, democracy, democracy-gone-wrong, error, error-and-truth, evil-laws, gadfly, hard-truths, justice, justice-system, law, laws, morality, morals, philosophical, politics, referrendum, right-and-wrong, truth, voting, votings, wisdom

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#19

“I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

tags: judgment, justice, morality

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#20

“There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.”
― Emilie Autumn

tags: justice, revenge

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#21

“It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: bravery, catholic, catholic-author, christian, citizen, citizenship, corruption, courage, defending-your-country, democracy, free-speech, freedom, freedom-of-speech, gadfly, injustice, justice, not-in-my-name, patriot, patriotic, patriotism, politics, protesting, protests, speak-out, speak-up, speak-up-and-step-up, speaking-out, speaking-up, standing-up, truth, unpatriotic, whistle-blower, whistle-blowers, whistle-blowing

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#22

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

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#23

“People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: character, humanity

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#24

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”
― André Gide, Prometheus Illbound

tags: horror, life, mankind, writers

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#25

“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#26

“Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.”
― David Wong, John Dies at the End

tags: devil, evil, trick

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#27

“People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

tags: kindness, people, ya

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#28

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: poetry

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#29

“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

tags: evil, injustice, justice, morality

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