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#1

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#2

“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#3

“Unlike wealth, poverty of intellect is equally distributed between the sexes and among the races.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: chauvinism, equality, inequality, patriarchy, poverty, racism, religion, sexism, white-supremacy, women-empowerment

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#4

“Whiteness mitigates crime, whereas blackness defines the criminal.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

tags: incarceration, prison-industrial-complex, white-supremacy, whiteness

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#5

“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: oppression, power, terrorism, torture

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#6

“لم يعد يدهشني الظلم ولا الغباء ولا الخوف ولا العناد ولا الجحود ولكن سأبقى دائمًا مندهشًا أمام قدرة الإنسان الفريدة على النسيان. آفة حارتنا.”
― بلال فضل

tags: human-nature, oppression

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#7

“كلما كان الرجل أكثر غبناَ في مكانته الاجتماعية، مارس قهراً أكبر على المرأة ص 202”
― مصطفى حجازي, التخلف الاجتماعي: مدخل إلى سيكولوجية الإنسان المقهور

tags: التخلف, التسلط, الرجل, الظلم, القهر, المرأة

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#8

“نقلاً عن الإمام كاشف الغطاء: "لو أننا نقول للكاذب أنت كاذب، وللظالم أنت ظالم، لما وصلنا إلى هذا الحال التعيس الذي يلعنه حتى إبليس" ص 58”
― باقر شريف القرشي, مقومات الحياة الاجتماعية في الإسلام

tags: التخلف, الظالم, الظلم, الكذب, المعروف, المنكر

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#9

“إن مئات الكيلومترات من السهوب الخاوية , الرتيبة , العارية , لا تستطيع أن تصيبك بهذه الكآبة التى يصيبك بها شخص واحد , عندما يجلس ويتحدث , ولا تدرى متى سيرحل .”
― أنطون تشيخوف, الروايات

tags: إنسان, جهل, حياة, كآبة, ملل

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#10

“والحقيقة أن الحروف تحجب ولا تكشف.. وتضلل ولا تدلل.. وتشوه ولا توضح.. وهي أدوات التباس أكثر منها أدوات تحديد”
― مصطفى محمود, الروح والجسد

tags: إنسان, الروح, الصمت

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#11

“And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden-caulfield, laughter

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#12

“DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it.”
― Jane Espenson, Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon

tags: connections, dollhouse, helplessness, loneliness, reaching-out

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#13

“Most parents try really hard to give their kids the best possible life. They give them the best food and clothes they can afford, take their own kind of take on training kids to be honest and polite. But what they don't realize is no matter how much they try, their kids will get out there. Out to this complicated little world. If they are lucky they will survive, through backstabbers, broken hearts, failures and all the kinds of invisible insane pressures out there. But most kids get lost in them. They will get caught up in all kinds of bubbles. Trouble bubbles. Bubbles that continuously tell them that they are not good enough. Bubbles that get them carried away with what they think is love, give them broken hearts. Bubbles that will blur the rest of the world to them, make them feel like that is it, that they've reached the end. Sometimes, even the really smart kids, make stupid decisions. They lose control. Parents need to realize that the world is getting complicated every second of every day. With new problems, new diseases, new habits. They have to realize the vast probability of their kids being victims of this age, this complicated era. Your kids could be exposed to problems that no kind of therapy can help. Your kids could be brainwashed by themselves to believe in insane theories that drive them crazy. Most kids will go through this stage. The lucky ones will understand. They will grow out of them. The unlucky ones will live in these problems. Grow in them and never move forward. They will cut themselves, overdose on drugs, take up excessive drinking and smoking, for the slightest problems in their lives.
You can't blame these kids for not being thankful or satisfied with what they have. Their mentality eludes them from the reality.”
― Thisuri Wanniarachchi, COLOMBO STREETS

tags: broken-hearts, bullying, childhood, childhood-trauma, crying, cutting-your-self, depression, emo, emotion, growing-up, happiness, helplessness, hopeless-romantic, infatuation, inspirational, joy, lfe-essons, life, love, parents, phases, romance, sorrow, teenage-love, teenagers, trapped

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#14

“I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian

tags: existential, existentialism, humble, humility, self-loathing, self-realization

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#15

“The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it.

The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!”
― Brian Cox

tags: atheism, critical-thinking, freedom, freedom-of-speech, honesty, manipulation, offense, opinions, rationality, religion, society

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#16

“Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?”
― Peter Hitchens

tags: brainwashing, debate, indoctrination, manipulation, rhetoric

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#17

“Until you realize how easy it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.”
― Evita Ochel

tags: deception, economy, enslavement, game-of-life, government, liberation, manipulation, media-distortion, media-manipulation, mind, mind-control, mind-power, mindfulness, politics

126 likes

#18

“I'm the bridge jumping friend parents warned you about.”
― Ross Caligiuri, Dreaming in the Shadows

tags: consciousness, dreams, memories, mentality, mind, nora, shadows, subconscious, thoughts, time

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#19

“If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?”
― Sam Harris

tags: evidence, honesty, importance, logic, paradox, reason, value

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#20

“والمقهور والمحتل في كل مكان لا يسمى ارهايبا اذا حاول ان ينتزع حقه وان يستعيد كرامته بأي وسيلة .. وحينما تفشل كل الوسائل السلمية لا يبقى أمام المظلوم سوى العنف !”
― مصطفى محمود

tags: احتلال, ظلم, عنف, قهر

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#21

“Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.”
― Aaron Ben-Ze'ev

tags: aching-heart, billy-holiday, breakups, central-features, circumstances, comeback, desperation, dwelling, edna-st-vincent-millay, ex-lovers, feelings, hole-in-the-world, imagination, impressive-comeback, intense-desire, love, mental-environment, negative-experiences, nostalgia, phenomenon, reciprocity, romantic-life, scars, st-vincent-millay

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#22

“I did the only thing I knew how to do: I built my own walls of silence to disguise my desperation and what later came to be recognized and diagnosed as depression.”
― Sharon E. Rainey, Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life

tags: depression, desperation, silence

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#23

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship

13146 likes

#24

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: conscience, politics, right

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#25

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

tags: philosophy, politics

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#26

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
― Ernest Benn

tags: misattributed-groucho-marx, politics, problems

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#27

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
― Bruce Lee

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#28

“Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.”
― Toba Beta

tags: hypocrisy, lies, naive

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#29

“Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

tags: break, honesty, strength, wall

266 likes

#30

“It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: bravery, catholic, catholic-author, christian, citizen, citizenship, corruption, courage, defending-your-country, democracy, free-speech, freedom, freedom-of-speech, gadfly, injustice, justice, not-in-my-name, patriot, patriotic, patriotism, politics, protesting, protests, speak-out, speak-up, speak-up-and-step-up, speaking-out, speaking-up, standing-up, truth, unpatriotic, whistle-blower, whistle-blowers, whistle-blowing

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