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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."
Explore more quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."
"I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several."
"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."
"There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course."
"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."
"Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further."
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