#illusion

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation. ↗

— Johann Most

#battle #before #called #doubt #enlightened

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#fantasy world #find #great #illusion #life

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#become #illusion #misconception #nuclear #nuclear age

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#dealing #generalities #history #illusions #impossible

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#evil #fault #faults #full #further

I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#became #disillusioned #feel #generation #i

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. ↗

— Javan

#illusion #just #just be #magic #sometimes

The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

#citizens #freeing #illusion #nation #occupation

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#live #our #problem #role #world

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#affairs #aware #destroying #doing #foreign