"All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear."

Society, Education, Self, Truth, Observation

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"All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear."

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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

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

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost."

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"Why have your followers all drawn their swords, may I ask?" said Aslan."May it please Your High Majesty," said the second Mouse, whose name was Peepiceek, "we are all waiting to cut off our own tails if our Chief must go without his. We will not bear the shame of wearing an honor which is denied to the High Mouse.""Ah!" roared Aslan. "You have conquered me. You have great hearts. Not for the sake of your dignity, Reepicheep, but for the love that is between you and your people, and still more for the kindness your people showed me long ago when you ate away the cords that bound me on the Stone Table (and it was then, though you have long forgotten it, that you began to be Talking Mice), you shall have your tail again."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"If God fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot."

John Green, American Author

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"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"We are living in glorious days where each readers' voice can be heard."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"If we in Nigeria and Africa generally are to experience a true national transformation, we must purposefully begin a campaign for national reorientation."

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"A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man."

Fear

"It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

Health

"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something, and it is only such love that can know freedom."

Spiritual

"The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure."

Beginning

"Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience."

Illusion

"It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy."

Mindset

"And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are."

Psychology

"Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you."

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"One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority."

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"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."

Movement