“The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.”
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“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
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“If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
“You seem to be under the impression that there is a special breed of bad humans. There is no such thing as a stereotype bad man in this world. Under normal conditions, everybody is more or less good, or, at least, ordinary. But tempt them, and they may suddenly change. That is what is so frightening about men.”
― Kokoro
― Kokoro
“I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.”
― Kokoro
― Kokoro
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