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"In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable."
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"Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor."
"Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone."
"We stand the risk of a standstill, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
"Don't calculate the world." This world is untruthful. Don't stop to do calculation, just keep on moving."
"Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life."
"If the road behind me is not growing ever longer, then it is likely that the feet underneath me are not moving any longer. And if my feet are not moving, I have somehow, somewhere traded this most glorious journey for lesser endeavors."
"I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African."
"I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it...but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill."
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"[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
"The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men."
"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics."
"Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful."
"Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities."
"Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform."
"I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious--for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe all the time. When asked why, since no man can see them, they reply: "Oh, but you forget the good God." Apparently they conceive of the Deity add a Peeping Tom, whose omnipotence enables Him to see through bathroom walls, but who is foiled by bathrobes."
"Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a contagion that can affect multiple beings in society."
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
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