“The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than any one.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I...”

― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“Yet our hearts swell with pride at the thought that America is becoming the most powerful nation on earth, and that it will eventually plant her iron foot on the necks of all other nations. Such is the logic of patriotism.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“The human mind has an adequate knowledge of the eternal and infinite essence of God.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“You see, I've got this real moron thing I do, it's called 'thinking.' And I guess I'm not a very good American, because I like to form my own opinions; I don't just roll over when I'm told.”

― George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty

“Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did, and never can, carry us beyond our own person, and it is by the imagination only that we can form...”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“I do love nothing in the world so well as you. Is not that strange?”

― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“This was the alpenglow, to me one of the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed and waiting like devout...”

― John Muir, The Mountains of California

“Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“If the oppressor uses violence, the oppressed have no alternative but to respond violently. In our case it was simply a legitimate form of self-defense.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

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