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For want of God, or something else, Jacob soon realized hell was not fire but suffering for want of worship.
“Anything worth having is worth busting your ass for.”
― Own It!: Be the Boss of Your Life—at Home and in the Workplace – Take Charge with No-Nonsense Expertise for Business Success
― Own It!: Be the Boss of Your Life—at Home and in the Workplace – Take Charge with No-Nonsense Expertise for Business Success
“All my life I have overheard, all my life I have listened to what people will let slip when they think you are part of their we. A we is so powerful. It is the most corrupt and formidable institution on earth. Its hands are full of the crispest and most persuasive currency. Its mouth is full of received, repeating language. The we closes its ranks to protect the space inside it, where the air is different. It does not protect people. It protects its own shape.”
― Priestdaddy
― Priestdaddy
“food system is one that is “unjust and unsustainable but it is not broken—it functions precisely as the capitalist food system has always worked; concentrating power in the hands of a privileged minority and passing off the social and environmental “externalities” disproportionately on to racially stigmatized groups.”
― Veganism in an Oppressive World: A Vegans-of-Color Community Project
― Veganism in an Oppressive World: A Vegans-of-Color Community Project
“When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?”
― Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
― Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
“A circle looks at a square and sees a badly made circle.”
― Authority
― Authority
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