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“It's not a matter of whether the war is not real, or if it is, Victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, it is ment to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the grueling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.”
― George Orwell

“If the ball does not fit your dog's mouth, it is not your ball.”
― Avesta Afshari-Mehr

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself.”
― James Anthony Froude

“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace; and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.”
― Thomas Paine, The Crisis

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

“Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes, the error of the past is the wisdom of the future.”
― Dale Turner

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
― Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes

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

“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
― Lao Tzu

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth”
― Oscar Wilde

“You cannot fight terrorism with terrorism.”
― Sahra Wagenknecht

“There is no justification whatsoever for waging war on undesirable regimes, because these wars ultimately do not favour democracy on the ground.”
― Sahra Wagenknecht

“Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.”
― Susan B. Anthony

“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
― Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

“within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.”
― Rhawn Joseph

“There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession”
― Daniel Webster

“No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.”
― Daisy Bates

“For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.”
― Clive Barker

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.”
― William Wordsworth

“FANATICISM is, to superstition, what delirium is to fever, and fury to anger : he who has ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities, and imaginations for prophecies, is an enthusiast ; and he, who sticks not at supporting his folly by murder, is a fanatic.”
― Voltaire, A Philosophical Dictionary; From the French Volume 3

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary