If your dream is only about you, it's too small
If your dream is only about you, it's too small
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We can work towards alleviating the suffering of all, and we can have fun along the way. I write to debug our culture and improve our state of affairs.
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People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.
It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.
There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.
There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.
The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently
The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently
Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization
Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization
The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.
To be wealthy and honoured in an unjust society is a disgrace
To be wealthy and honoured in an unjust society is a disgrace
Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be “apolitical” is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.
Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be “apolitical” is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.
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