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Idries Shah

"Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed."

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"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"

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"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."

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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."

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"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."

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"Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death."

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"If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just."

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"To seek the truth, you must first recognize that you do not know."
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