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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#compassion #friendship #indignation #life #long

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#certainties #comfort #i #love #me

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#impossible #obstacle #overcome #stubbornness #stupid

The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#adequately #communities #creating #current #filled

The Declaration is a magnificent document. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#document #magnificent

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#feels #himself #males #mediocre #most

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#centralized #continue #democracy #european #finding

Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#deficits #ever #experienced #largest #led

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#different #different thing #make #object #oneself

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. ↗

— August Bebel

#civilization #enemy #liberty