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“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
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“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
― Under Western Eyes
― Under Western Eyes
“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.”
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“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
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