“Civil war—what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war between men, war between brothers?”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“The Lord, in the culmination of the mystery of the Incarnation, chose to reach our intimate depths through a fragment of matter. He comes not from above, but from within, he comes that we might find him in this world of ours.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

“The love of battle is the food upon which we live—the dust of the 'melee' is the breath of our nostrils! We live not—we wish not to live—longer than while we are victorious and renowned—Such, maiden, are the laws of chivalry to which we...”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“Monday morning found Tom Sawyer miserable. Monday morning always found him so—because it began another week's slow suffering in school. He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity...”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“Communism, advertised as bringing a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.”

― Henry Kissinger, On China

“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.”

― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

“But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty, for here it succeeds in understanding necessity, beyond which there can be no greater sureness.”

― Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics.”

― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

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