"And Englishmen like posing as gods."

Society, Ego, Power, Deception, Humanity

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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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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!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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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."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Society, Corporate, Truth, Happiness, Power

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

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."

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"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."

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"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."

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"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."

Love, Death, Life, Food

"One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves."

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"To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way."

Man, Men, Art, Right, Wrong

"I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life."

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"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

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"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."

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"No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour."

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