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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: blood, cruelty, fear, gods, religion, suffering
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    tags: animals, cruelty, mankind
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Man is the cruelest animal.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: animals, cruelty, evil, man
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    T.S. Eliot
    “April is the cruelest month, breeding
    lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
    memory and desire, stirring
    dull roots with spring rain.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
    tags: april, cruelty, poetry, seasons, weather
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
    tags: cruelty, evil, humanity, kindness
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    Yukio Mishima
    “True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
    ― Yukio Mishima
    tags: beauty, cruelty, love
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    Anatole France
    “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
    ― Anatole France
    tags: law, poverty, wealth
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    Anatole France
    “We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
    ― Anatole France
    tags: bible, devil, god, scriptures
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    Anatole France
    “If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
    ― Anatole France
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    Anatole France
    “It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.”
    ― Anatole France
    tags: arrogance, truth, zealotry
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    “We don’t think you fight fire with fire best ; we think you fight fire with water best. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism. We’re stood up and said we’re not going to fight reactionary pigs and reactionary state’s attorneys like this and reactionary state’s attorneys like Hanrahan with any other reactions on our part. We’re going to fight their reactions with all of us people getting together and having an international proletarian revolution.”
    ― Fred Hampton
    tags: anti-capitalism, anti-racism, black-panther-party, black-panthers, capitalism, fred-hampton, racism, socialism, solidarity
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    Carl Sagan
    “The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
    tags: anti-capitalism, anti-war, astronomy, earth, perspective
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    Victor Hugo
    “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: apothegm, optimism
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    Victor Hugo
    “To love another person is to see the face of God.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
    ― Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables
    tags: inspirational
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    Victor Hugo
    “Those who do not weep, do not see.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: crying, inspirational, sorrow
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    Victor Hugo
    “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: reading
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    Victor Hugo
    “You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: love
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    Victor Hugo
    “You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: honesty
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    Victor Hugo
    “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: education
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    Victor Hugo
    “Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
    ― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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    Karl Marx
    “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

    [These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
    ― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
    tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle
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    Karl Marx
    “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
    ― Karl Marx
    tags: duopoly, oppression, politics, representation, repression, society
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    Karl Marx
    “The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
    ― Karl Marx
    tags: misattributed
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    Karl Marx
    “Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

    Workingmen of all countries unite!”
    ― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
    tags: communism, communist-revolution, politics, proletariat, ruling-classic, tremble, unite
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    Karl Marx
    “Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!”
    ― Karl Marx
    tags: humor, inspirational, last-words
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    Margaret Atwood
    “​Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: handmaid-s-tale, offred, reality-check, remember
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
    tags: compromise, hell, incrementalism
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    Reginald Rose
    “There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.”
    ― Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men
    tags: death-penalty, guilt, jury
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