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  • #1
    Leo Tolstoy
    “When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #2
    James Baldwin
    “True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life”
    James Baldwin

  • #3
    Woody Guthrie
    “I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I have been in the red all my life.”
    Woody Guthrie

  • #4
    George Orwell
    “When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.”
    George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

  • #5
    Noam Chomsky
    “That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.”
    Noam Chomsky

  • #6
    Wendell Berry
    “Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.”
    Wendell Berry, Farming: A Hand Book

  • #7
    Flannery O'Connor
    “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
    Flannery O'Connor

  • #8
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #9
    Thomas Paine
    “Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
    thomas paine, Rights of Man

  • #10
    Murray Bookchin
    “The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.”
    Murray Bookchin

  • #11
    Angela Y. Davis
    “The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?”
    Angela Y. Davis

  • #12
    Carl Sagan
    “We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #13
    Naomi Klein
    “People without memory are putty.”
    Naomi Klein

  • #14
    Anne Lamott
    “You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
    Anne Lamott

  • #15
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”
    ursula le guin

  • #16
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The wise speak only of what they know”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

  • #17
    Milan Kundera
    “In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #18
    Karl Marx
    “Money is the alienated essence of man's labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.”
    Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1

  • #19
    Leonard Cohen
    “Never make a decision when you need to pee.”
    Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

  • #20
    Howard Zinn
    “The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.”
    Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

  • #21
    Eartha Kitt
    “A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.”
    Eartha Kitt

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #23
    Bertrand Russell
    “It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #24
    Adam Smith
    “Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
    Adam Smith

  • #25
    Arundhati Roy
    “Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.”
    Arundhati Roy

  • #26
    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    Mark Twain

  • #27
    Cormac McCarthy
    “At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned”
    Cormac McCarthy, Child of God

  • #28
    Friedrich Engels
    “The middle classes have a truly extraordinary conception of society. They really believe that human beings . . . have real existence only if they make money or help to make it.”
    Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England

  • #29
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

  • #30
    Hélder Câmara
    “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
    Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings



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