"If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness--even from a president."

Society, Patriotism, Defense, Responsibility, Ethics

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"If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness--even from a president."

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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

Society, Energy, People, World, Connection

"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Society, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational, Power

"Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it's an almost losing battle against it."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

Society, Bureaucracy, Art, Power, Control

"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Society, Rights, Power, Respect, Humanity

"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Society, Kitchen, Man, Spiritual

"Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Society, Poverty, Shyness, Truth, Humanity

"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Society, Parents, Concern, Living, Relationship

"The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there's a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Society, Fashion, Distraction, Approval

"Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Society, Happiness, Choice, Responsibility

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Society, Insanity, Nations

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"Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads."

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"Electing a bigot enables further bigotry."

Society

"We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail."

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"Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon."

Society

"Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't."

Society

"Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against."

Society

"Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress."

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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!"

"Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it's an almost losing battle against it."

"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."

"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."

"Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly."

"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."

"Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be."

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

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"Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads."

"Electing a bigot enables further bigotry."

"We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail."

"Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon."

"Leadership by deception isn't leadership. It's fraud."

"The power of love is that it sees all people."

"Talk without the support of action means nothing."

"Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't."

"Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against."

"Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress."