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All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger. ↗


— Isaac Asimov


#life

As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains. ↗


— Leon Trotsky


#morality #politics #violence #wage-labor #life

Now the best relation to our spiritual home is to be near enough to love it. But the next best is to be far enough away not to hate it. It is the contention of these pages that while the best judge of Christianity is a Christian, the next best judge would be something more like a Confucian. The worst judge of all is the man now most ready with his judgements; the ill-educated Christian turning gradually into the ill-tempered agnostic, entangled in the end of a feud of which he never understood the beginning, blighted with a sort of hereditary boredom with he knows not what, and already weary of hearing what he has never heard. ↗


— G.K. Chesterton


#bias #education

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics. ↗


— Julie Nixon Eisenhower


#men #more #politics #prove #than

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it? ↗


— Rasheed Ogunlaru


#acceptance #appreciation #conquer #consciousness #contentment

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research. ↗


— Isaac Asimov


#life

Behind tranquillity lies conquered unhappiness. ↗


— J. William T. Youngs


#humanitarian #politics #women-s-rights #life

London is on the whole the most possible form of life. ↗


— Henry James


#city-life #life #london #metropolis #life

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation. ↗


— James Freeman Clarke


#generation #next #next election #politician #statesman

The senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour. Hubert Humphrey, as quoted by Biden, p. 134 ↗


— Joe Biden


#life






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