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“Laws become fragile under the influence of dictators.”
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“Lady justice, that whore, is rarely always blind, for she can be bought or pressured by power. What good are laws if the pimps who own her can decide who gets to fuck her and for what price?”
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“The mind is constantly trawling through memories to find those that echo our current emotional state. For example, if you feel threatened, the mind instantly digs up memories of when you felt endangered in the past, so that you can spot similarities and find a way of escaping.”
― Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
― Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
“Living for others is a true accolade that never changes or loses its luster.”
― Heaven's Formula For Saving The World
― Heaven's Formula For Saving The World
“One of the saddest facts of the human condition is that most people follow the herd. Sometimes, of course, the herd is morally right. That, obviously, is the ideal. But most good is achieved by individuals who have the courage to part from the majority when it is morally wrong. In addition, people tend to act worse in groups than when alone. The herd, not to mention the mob, emboldens people to do bad things they would rarely do if they had no such support.”
― The Rational Bible: Exodus
― The Rational Bible: Exodus
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