“In a society where the good is defined in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, there must always be some group of people who, through systematised oppression, can be made to feel surplus, to occupy the space of the dehumanised inferior.”
― Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
― Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― The Lost Princess of Oz
― The Lost Princess of Oz
“You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.”
― Heir of Fire
― Heir of Fire
“The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.”
(Analects 4.16)”
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(Analects 4.16)”
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“So Plato talked about these beings that used to exist that had four legs and four arms and two heads. They were totally self-contained and ecstatic and powerful. Too powerful, so Zeus cut them all in half and scattered all the halves around the world so that humans were doomed to forever look for their other half, the one who shared their very soul. Only the luckiest humans find their split-apart, you see.”
― I'll Give You the Sun
― I'll Give You the Sun
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