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“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
[As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment]”
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[As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment]”
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“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
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“Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
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“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
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