“The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“The American people have this to learn: that where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither person nor property is safe.”
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“Happiness is not experiencing something else; it’s continually experiencing what you already have in new and different ways.”
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
“If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth—certainly the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.”
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
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