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Erich Fromm
“Man does not suffer so much from poverty today, as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, an automaton. That his life has become empty and lost its meaning.

The victory over all kinds of authoritarian systems will be possible only if democracy does not retreat, but takes the offensive and proceeds to realise what has been its aim in the minds of those who fought for freedom throughout the last centuries.

It will triumph over the forces of nihilism only if it can imbue people with a faith that is the strongest the human mind is capable of - the faith in life and in truth and in freedom, as the active and spontaneous realisation of the individual self.”
Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom

Richard Powers
“Life itself is a spectrum disorder, where each of us vibrated at some unique frequency in the continuous rainbow.”
Richard Powers, Bewilderment

Danny Trejo
“The way I see it, if he ain't worth killing, he ain't worth fighting. And if he ain't worth fighting, then he ain't worth getting upset about. And since you're not upset, grab me a Dr Pepper from the icebox.”
Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption and Happiness - Signed / Autographed Copy

Richard Powers
“There are four good things worth practicing. Being kind toward everything alive. Staying level and steady. Feeling happy for any creature anywhere that is happy. And remembering that any suffering is also yours.”
Richard Powers, Bewilderment

Jared Byas
“Our emphasis on knowledge and belief over the past few hundred years has deceived us into thinking that thinking true thoughts is what matters in the Christian faith. This couldn’t be further from how the Bible talks about faith and, frankly, how it talks about truth. There are almost no places in the Bible where it endorses a view of truth as “believing the right doctrine.”
Jared Byas, Love Matters More: How Fighting to Be Right Keeps Us from Loving Like Jesus

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