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Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult. ERICH FROMM
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Goethe had long since remarked that nationalistic feelings 'are at their strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture'.
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The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions. ALEXANDER CHASE
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To lie sleepless with pain at night, or to wake every morning and feel the return of grief, yet to get up and carry on as best one can, is courage itself.
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The best of what we are lies in what we hope to be
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For we live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; and our time should be counted in the throbs of our hearts as we love and help, learn and strive, and make from our own talents whatever can increase the stock of the world's good.
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I to je zapravo sustina proslavljanja Dana sv. Valentina:san o ljubavi. Zivot bi zaista bio gorak kada se san nikada ne bi ostvario ili kada nasa najvaznija zivotna iskustva ljubavi - storge, pragma, ludus, agape - ne bi bila dovoljno trajna i cvsta da nas spasu kad nas zahvati oluja erosa i manije - donoseci nam blazenstvo i ostavljajuci pustos za sobom.
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the word God is typically invoked to denote the all-encompassing and unanswerable source of authority governing what people can think, say, eat and wear, in what circumstances and with whom they can have sexual relations, how they must behave on specified days or weeks of the year, and so comprehensively on. The fact that different religions claim that their god or gods have different requirements in these respects should be evidence that r..
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope,' said Voltaire; 'today everything is fine, that is our illusion.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
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Art You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
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Lying That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence. NIETZSCHE
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice,' wrote Montaigne; 'we have no tie upon one another, other than the reliability of our word.
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The world pullulates with profoundly unrespectable people, views and actions, at all levels and in all neighbourhoods, and PC's reflex tendency to attack most of those who attack many of them makes matters worse. True discrimination - careful and fair-minded separation of worth from dross - is bundled by PC with all discrimination, and banned; hence the trouble. What began as a movement to rectify relationships has become a minefield of sus..
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Implicit in the idea of degeneration from the best form of government, the aristocratic, is Plato's claim that the members of the demos lack the knowledge and virtue of the aristoi, which is what make the latter fit to govern. He thinks that the collapse of the democratic state is inevitable given the supposed opposite characteristics of the polloi or general public: ignorance, self-interest, prejudice, envy, and rivalry.
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For the grace of bearing life's inevitable evils is itself a
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Without free speech one cannot claim other liberties, or defend them when they are attacked. Without free speech one cannot have a democratic process, which requires the statement and testing of policy proposals and party platforms. Without free speech one cannot have a due process at law, in which one can defend oneself, accuse, collect and examine evidence, make a case or refute one. Without free speech there cannot be genuine education a..
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Along with enraged responses to Zeppelin air raids, the sinking of the Lusitania, and the use of poison gas in the trenches, these demonisations prompted outrage in the United States and other neutral states at the moral vileness of Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany. Bad things were undoubtedly done, but the propaganda technique of encouraging pro-war sentiment in one's own country by claiming that the enemy commits atrocities is both too tempting t..
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Fear If the diver always thought of the shark, he would never lay hands on the pearl. SA'DI
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Racism is on its deathbed - the question is, how costly will racists make the funeral? MARTIN LUTHER KING
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Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.
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One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun. THOMAS FULLER
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Such melancholy is fitted to the fact that life offers causes for regret, that happiness is not always the point, and that there is enough hardship and struggle to go round, but not enough of the good things; and reflection on these useful insights is a check on thoughtlessness and self-satisfaction - what the Russians expressively call poshlost - which threaten to make one live in banal fashion. So a little depression is good at times, in ..
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Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did. LORD BYRON
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! THOREAU
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We find little in a book but what we put there,' Joseph Joubert said. 'But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
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Yet apes are intelligent, inquisitive, affectionate and sociable, with capacities for suffering and grief that match our own, and with a grave beauty and dignity which recalls Schopenhauer's remark that 'There is one respect in which brutes show real wisdom when compared to us - I mean their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
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Govern a family as you would cook a small fish. CHINESE PROVERB
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Obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate'. BERTRAND RUSSELL
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There are several kinds of poverty. Third-and first-world poverty are entirely different in character because of the great difference in their historical and economic settings. The gruel-ling problems faced by the third world's poor relate to bare survival, to the basic task of getting water and food. Their plight is often further complicated by war, corruption, flood or drought. Third-world poverty is life on the margins of existence, a to..
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The rich cannot eat money,' dryly observes a Russian proverb, 'so it's just as well that there are poor folk to grow their food.
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The rich man may never get into heaven,' remarked Alexander Chase, 'but the poor are already serving their term in hell.
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Speciesism Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time. HENRY BESTON
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The trouble with the profit system has always been that it is highly unprofitable to most people. E. B. WHITE
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Hatred is a sentiment that leads to the extinction of values. ORTEGA Y GASSET
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. FRANCIS BACON
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Fear begets intolerance, and intolerance begets fear: the cycle is a vicious one.
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Faith is what I die for, dogma is what I kill for,' as the saying has it; and the trouble is that all faith is based on dogma.
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Hope If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
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Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope,' Petronius remarked.
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Hope is the worst of evils,' Nietzsche famously said, 'for it prolongs the torment of man.
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Hope is a virtue independently of its realisations; it is an intrinsic value, an end in itself, allied to courage and imagination, a positive attitude full of possibility and aspiration. For that reason you discover more about a person when you learn about his hopes than when you count his achievements, for the best of what we are lies in what we hope to be.
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Per ardua ad astra.
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As Ruskin said, it is not what we get but what we become by our endeavours that makes them worthwhile.
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