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"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril."
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell - 1984
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"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
Plato - The Republic
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“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching
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“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
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"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
Plato - The Republic
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“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
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“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
Lao Tsu - Tao Teh Ching
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“The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.”
Karl Marx - The Communist Manifesto
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
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“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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"Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble."
John Lewis
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“Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”
Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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“I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.”
Martin Luther King Jr. - The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
Alice Walker - The Color Purple
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“If you're comfortable learning history, it's the wrong history.”
Amy Sarig King - Attack of the Black Rectangles
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“We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
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“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
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“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
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“Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.”
Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
Robert Greene - The 48 Laws of Power
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“Sometimes being a good ally is about opening the door for someone instead of insisting that your voice is the only one that matters.”
Mikki Kendall - Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
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“A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones”
Nelson Mandela - Long Walk to Freedom
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“Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - My Own Words
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“Hell is truth seen too late.”
Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
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“Man's character is his fate.”
Heraclitus - Fragments
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“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
John Milton - Paradise Lost
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“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
James Madison - Federalist Papers
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“But a plant on the edge of a deserts is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to be dependent upon the moisture.”
Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species
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“A person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself, and is unworthy of respect.”
Robert Greene - The 48 Laws of Power
