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"Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?"
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"Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible."
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"Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm.""You're not wrong and that's why we're in the shit we're in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker's toss about anywhere?"
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"Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough."
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"The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away."
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"A lot of attention has been given over to the Catholic Churches sexual abuse of children in their care, but this attention seems to have been hijacked by the media and has overshadowed the many thousands of victims that endured physical abuse."
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"As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society."
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"The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'."
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"More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation."
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"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions."
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"What's the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?"
Nature
"You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language, and pretty soon to sobriety, raising families and making an honest living."
Corruption
"Monza never had understood why getting out a tit or two made for a better painting. But painters seemed to think it did, so tits is what you got."
Art
"I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them."
Learning
"Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter."
Power
"It was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion."
Emotion
"The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind."
Adaptation
"Empathy? What's that? Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. 'It's a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself."
Betrayal
"You can always make enemies of your friends,' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor."
Reconciliation
"He blamed every fucker available excepting, of course, the one who was actually to blame, the one sitting in his saddle and getting colder, hungrier, and more lost with every unpleasant moment. 'Shit!' he roared at nothing."
Blame
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