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“Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.”
― Education and the Significance of Life: Jiddu Krishnamurti on Freedom, Self-Understanding, and Mature Love
― Education and the Significance of Life: Jiddu Krishnamurti on Freedom, Self-Understanding, and Mature Love
“My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
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“I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
― The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident
― The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
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Tanya’s 2025 Year in Books
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