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    Karl Popper
    “All life is problem solving”
    ― Karl Popper
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    Socrates
    “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: marriage
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    Emma Goldman
    “People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
    ― Emma Goldman
    tags: anarchism, independence, independent-thought, inspirational, liberty, revolution
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    Emma Goldman
    “Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.”
    ― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
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    John Green
    “High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: high-school, system
    198 likes

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    Emma Goldman
    “Every society has the criminals it deserves.”
    ― Emma Goldman, Red Emma Speaks: Selected Writings & Speeches
    tags: anarchism, criminal, emma-goldman, politics, society
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    Edward Abbey
    “Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.”
    ― Edward Abbey
    tags: anarchism, wisdom
    221 likes

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    Cormac McCarthy
    “At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Child of God
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    Emma Goldman
    “Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.”
    ― Emma Goldman
    tags: anarchism, political-philosophy, revolution
    176 likes

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    Edward Abbey
    “Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.”
    ― Edward Abbey
    tags: anarchism, anarchy, democracy, politics
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    Banksy
    “I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”
    ― Banksy
    tags: death-and-dying, oblivion
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    Banksy
    “The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.”
    ― Banksy, Wall and Piece
    tags: blind-obedience, crimes, obedience, rebellion, rule-breaking, rules
    781 likes

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    Banksy
    “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
    ― Banksy
    tags: art, truth
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    Banksy
    “A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.”
    ― Banksy, Wall and Piece
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    Banksy
    “Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.”
    ― Banksy, Wall and Piece
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    Banksy
    “Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.”
    ― Banksy, Wall and Piece
    252 likes

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    Banksy
    “People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.”
    ― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
    tags: death, famine, morning-people, morning-person, type-a, war
    243 likes

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    Banksy
    “Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie.”
    ― Banksy, Wall and Piece
    tags: sarcasm
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    Banksy
    “People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one”
    ― Banksy, Wall and Piece
    tags: chauvinism, flags, nationalism, patriotism
    152 likes

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    Banksy
    “I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me. ”
    ― Banksy
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    Banksy
    “There are no exceptions to the rule that everyone thinks they're an exception to the rules”
    ― Banksy, Wall and Piece
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
    15488 likes

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    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
    7273 likes

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    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
    3960 likes

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    Socrates
    “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder
    2017 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
    4203 likes

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    Plato
    “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy
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    Plato
    “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule
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    Plato
    “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy, politics
    1147 likes

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    Plato
    “good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
    ― Plato
    tags: laws, people
    895 likes



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