Really Cool Quotes

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Alice: “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
The Cheshire Cat: “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”
Alice: “I don’t much care where.”
The Cheshire Cat: “Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go.”
Alice: “...So long as I get somewhere.”
The Cheshire Cat: “Oh, you’re sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.”

— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

 

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"There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists" - Yosemite Park ranger on why it's hard to design a bear-proof garbage can

 

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In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
~ George Orwell

 

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“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

 

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“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell,

 

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"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny....when the government fears the people, there is liberty!"
Thomas Jefferson

 

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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

William Shakespeare-Sonnet 18

 

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The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
Fyodor Dostoevsky​

 

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If you escape from people too often, you wind up escaping from yourself.
Marvin Gaye​

 

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"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -
Voltaire

 

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"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." ---
David Rockefeller

 

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“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
– Immanuel Kant

 

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“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.” – Immanuel Kant

 

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“The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.”
– Immanuel Kant

 

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“Honesty is better than any policy.”
– Immanuel Kant

 

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Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him.
At that moment, man finds his character.
And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
Lou Mannheim

 

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War is the most asinine endeavor we humans undertake with glee. Perhaps that is why we are so good at it.
“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
― Albert Einstein

 

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“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.” -
Mark Twain