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your life: people are fucking idiots. But nobody is born an idiot—we unknowingly choose to be idiots because we are not taught the methodologies of how to think. When devoid of this knowledge, people unconsciously view what they have
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“Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains . . . an unuprooted small corner of evil.”
― The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
― The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
“A book with the delicious title of The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, composed by an unnamed Greek in about 80 CE, gave detailed navigational instructions to those planning to sail to what is now Gujarat, and thence to gain access to the Deccan, where one could buy and export such specialties as ginseng, aromatic oils, myrrh, ivory, agate, carnelian, cotton cloth, silk, Indian muslins, yarn, and long pepper.”
― Beyond Dharma: Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics
― Beyond Dharma: Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics
“He found the Mahasabha’s policies, especially towards Muslims, abhorrent, saying that it came out ‘from time to time with the stupidest of proposals’. But he also noticed that ‘stupidity has a market, if it puts on some kind of a nationalist garb’.”
― The Identity Project: The Unmaking of a Democracy
― The Identity Project: The Unmaking of a Democracy
“How enlightened of you, Moneo! Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune
“I asked you how the Germans could send Jewish children to die in the gas chambers. How, I asked, could they live with themselves after that? Was there really no judgement passed on them by man or God? And you said: Only one judgement is passed on the executioner – he ceases to be a human being. Through looking on his victim as less than human, he becomes his own executioner; he executes the human being inside himself. But the victim – no matter what the executioner does to kill him – remains a human being forever. Remember now?”
― Everything Flows
― Everything Flows
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