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#1

“Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#2

“The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?"

"Wouldn't I know which one I was?"

"Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
― Derek Landy, Death Bringer

tags: good-and-evil, lies, perception, personality, self-deception, truth, truth-and-lies, villains

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#3

“Sooner or later on this journey, every traveller faces the same question: Are you a human intending to be a god, or a god pretending to be human?”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

tags: awakening, awareness, consciousness, divinity, enlightenment, know-thyself, limitation, meaning-of-life, purpose, purpose-of-life, self-awareness, self-knowledge, self-transformation, transformation, truth

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#4

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: activism, truth-and-lies, wisdom

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#5

“I don't mind being called a liar. I am. I am a marvelous liar. But I hate being called a liar when I´m telling the perfect truth.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

tags: truth-and-lies

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#6

“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

tags: fear, freedom, meaning-of-life, psychology, purpose-of-life, work

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#7

“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

tags: employment, life, purpose-of-life, time, usefulness, waste

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#13

“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

tags: atheism, belief, blind, blind-faith, blindness, christian-faith, christian-miracle, critical-thinking, critical-thought, death-of-reason, doubt, doubt-is-sin, eternity, existence, foundation-of-belief, human-nature, intoxication, meaning, meaning-of-life, metaphor, miracle, myth, nature, origin, philosophy, purpose, purpose-of-life, reason, reflection, religious-faith, resurrection, resurrection-of-jesus, sin, sinful, thinking, thoughts, wasted-life

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#14

“People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

tags: alone, alone-but-not-lonely, alone-in-a-cloud, alone-quote, aloneness, herd, herd-behavior, herd-mentality, herd-quotes, loneliness, loneliness-of-life, loneliness-or-solitude, truth, truth-and-lies, truth-quote, truth-quotes, truth-telling, truths, unreasonable

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#15

“An Act of Dissent is simply a way of saying, 'No, I do not accept this and, as my silence may be construed as acquiescence, I would like to make a small gesture to indicate that you can all go fuck yourselves.”
― Mark Thomas, 100 Acts of Minor Dissent

tags: dissent, humour, social-activism

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#15

“We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, we must go against the prevailing wind. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.”
― Thurgood Marshall

tags: america, apathy, democracy, dissent, fear, hatred, indifference, justice, liberty, mistrust, united-states, united-states-of-america, us, usa

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#16

“The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

tags: make-a-difference, purpose-of-life

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#16

“In America, the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers, an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. Not that he is in danger of an auto-da-fe, but he is exposed to continued obloquy and persecution. His political career is closed forever since he has offended the only authority that is able to open it. Every sort of compensation, even that of celebrity, is refused to him. Before making public his opinions he thought he had sympathizers; now it seems to him that he has none any more since he revealed himself to everyone; then those who blame him criticize him loudly and those who think as he does keep quiet and move away without courage. He yields at length, over-come by the daily effort which he has to make, and subsides into silence, as if he felt remorse for speaking the truth.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America -; Volume 1

tags: american-society, authority, democracy, demos, dissent, indoctrination, political-correctness, silent-tyranny, truth

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#17

“Political correctness is a code to silence dissent as western society is razed. The culture wars will erupt into violence, pitting those who defend western values vs. leftists, their 'allies', and the rulers who want to consign western civilization to oblivion.”
― Michael Rectenwald, Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage

tags: culture-wars, dissent, political-correctness

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#18

“The time is now proper for us to reform backward; more by dissenting than by agreeing; by differing more than by consent.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: dissent, reform, self-examination

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#19

“What do you mean by sound government?'
Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear and war and crime, a reasonably equitable distribution of wealth and resources, concern for the individual life.'
Then we haven't got sound government.”
― P.D. James

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#20

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

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#22

“A single whisper can be quite a disturbance when the rest of the audience is silent.”
― Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno

tags: activism, dissent, protest

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#22

“Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by many good as well as by evil men. Nationalism is a relatively recent phenomenon but at other times and places the ends have been racial or territorial security, support of a dynasty or regime, and particular plans for saving souls. As first and moderate methods to attain unity have failed, those bent on its accomplishment must resort to an ever-increasing severity. . . . Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

It seems trite but necessary to say that the First Amendment to our Constitution was designed to avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings. There is no mysticism in the American concept of the State or of the nature or origin of its authority. We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.”
― Robert H. Jackson

tags: america, barnette, democracy, dissent, first-amendment, freedom, government, nationalism, supreme-court, thoughts, unanimity, united-states, united-states-of-america, us, usa

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#22

“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

tags: choice, evil, invitation, strategy

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#23

“Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.”
― John F. Kennedy

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#23

“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
― Aristotle

tags: choice, inspirational

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#25

“Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we still can, then maybe one of your children may elect to do so in the future, when it will be far more riskier — and much, much harder.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: action, administration, censor, censors, censorship, change, cheating, children, civil-liberties, civil-rights, control, corrupt, corrupt-politics, corruption, democracy, democratic, dissent, elect, elections, equality, fair, freedom, freedom-of-speech, future, government, hard, human-rights, injustice, justice, liberty, peace, people, politics, public, rebellion, regulations, revolt, revolution, rigged, rigging, risk, riskier, social-change, social-justice, stand-up, suppress, system, take-a-stand, unfair-elections, united, unity, vote, voting, world, youth

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#25

“I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…” He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.”
― Marissa Meyer, Scarlet

tags: betrayal, choice, emotions, friendship, love, scarlet, wolf

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#26

“You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

tags: attitude, critical-thinking, defiance, dissent, empowerment, freedom, social-order

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#27

“Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now. “I’m afraid of committing myself,” she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none. Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic disappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pan, loss, and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes not to see the bad things in life.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

tags: choice, life

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#28

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: civic-duty, dissent, patriotism, patriots, protest

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#29

“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
― Frederick Douglass

tags: activism, agitation, dissent, liberties, power, radicalism, rights

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#30

“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

tags: choice, cowardice, responsibility

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#31

“Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: dissent, graffiti, hunter-s-thompson, hunter-thompson, subversion

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