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“We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self destruction.”
― Mockingjay
― Mockingjay
“They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?”
― The Long Walk
― The Long Walk
“Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.”
― Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
― Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.”
― A Single Man
― A Single Man
“People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“Who hasn't asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?”
― The Hour of the Star
― The Hour of the Star
“Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy me. To-day I am proud to say that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I have nothing to do with creeds and principles. I have nothing to do with the creaking machinery of humanity - I belong to the earth!”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.”
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“So often,” Jackaby said, “people think that when we arrive at a crossroads, we can choose only one path, but—as I have often and articulately postulated—people are stupid. We’re not walking the path. We are the path. We are all of the roads and all of the intersections. Of course you can choose both.”
― Beastly Bones
― Beastly Bones
“Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.”
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“Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-consuming hatred. It can only be conquered by recognizing and claiming the wealth of values it represents for all.”
― Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
― Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
“At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.”
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“The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to watch either.”
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“If Bhagwan was here, he would have said that it’s not for the world to love you but for you to love it without expectations.”
― Saint Richard Parker
― Saint Richard Parker
“I do not know whether you draw a distinction between principles and rules. But I do... Rules are practical; they are habitual ways of doing things according to prescription. But principles are intellectual; they are useful methods of judging things... The principle may be wrong, but the act is conscious and responsible. The rule may be right, but the act is mechanical. A religious act may not be a correct act, but must at least be a responsible act. To permit this responsibility, religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules it ceases to be religion, as it kills the responsibility which is the essence of a truly religious act.”
― Annihilation of Caste
― Annihilation of Caste
“We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library”
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“A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.”
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“Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.”
― Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
― Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
“The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity.”
― Deadline
― Deadline
“Tanah air ada disana, dimana ada cinta dan kedekatan hati, dimana tidak ada manusia menginjak manusia lain.”
― Burung-Burung Manyar
― Burung-Burung Manyar
“Every man must have a philosophy of life,
for everyone must have a standard by which to measure his conduct.
And philosophy is nothing but a standard by which to measure.”
― Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual
for everyone must have a standard by which to measure his conduct.
And philosophy is nothing but a standard by which to measure.”
― Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual
“Friends disappear
or they are powerless.
This is what misfortune means
an acid test of friendship.
I wouldn't wish it on anyone.”
― Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
or they are powerless.
This is what misfortune means
an acid test of friendship.
I wouldn't wish it on anyone.”
― Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
“When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives",and so in every crisis he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him.He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it.”
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