Category: Quote Posts

Quote Post: Pericles

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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. — Pericles

Quote Post: Bertrand Russell

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The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than average leisure, brutality and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement & terrorism. — Bertrand Russell

Quote Post: George Orwell

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'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.' ― 1984 by George Orwell

Quote Post: Emily Wilson

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You will die. Everyone you love will also die. You will lose them forever. You will be sad and angry. You will weep. You will bargain. You will make demands. You will beg. You will pray. It will make no difference. Nothing you can do will bring them back. You know this. Your knowing changes nothing. — Emily Wilson (from the introduction to her translation of The Iliad by Homer)

Quote Post: Hannah Arendt

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Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty. — Hannah Arendt

Quote Post: Eric Fromm

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The simultaneous love for authority and the hatred against those who are powerless are typical traits of the "authoritarian character". ― Escape From Freedom by Eric Fromm

8 changes for reducing your carbon footprint

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Eight changes for reducing your carbon footprint 1. Electrify and share your travel 2. Eat a plant-based diet 3. Buy less, buy eco-friendly 4. Recycle. Reduce food waste. 5. Fly less 6. Install a heat pump. Switch to renewable electricity. 7. Practice energy saving 8. Invest responsibly Source: https://giki.earth/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/TheClimateSuper8_final.pdf

Source: ‘The Climate Super 8’ https://giki.earth/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/TheClimateSuper8_final.pdf

Quote Post: Salman Rushdie

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"What do we do about free speech when it is so widely abused? We should still do, with renewed vigour, what we have always needed to do: to answer bad speech with better speech, to counter false narratives with better narratives, to answer hate with love, and to believe that the truth can still succeed even in an age of lies." — Salman Rushdie

Quote Post: Wilhem Stekel

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Every fear is fear of death. — Wilhem Stekel

Quote Post: Julia Scheeres

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Julia Scheeres on survivng religion: 'I can no longer have blind faith in creeds, because I am no longer blind.' — Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres

Quote Post: “People don’t become Christians because it’s true”

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"People don't become Christians because it's true, but because they have been brainwashed, indoctrinated, and groomed since childhood." — u/RandomNPC1984 Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/FunnyAtheistMemes/comments/13784z6/people_dont_become_christians_because_its_true/

Quote Post: June Nelson

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"During my lifetime the world's seabirds have declined by 70%. So this is a desperate situation. Habitat destruction, destructive fishing methods, and now of course climate change." ― June Nelson Source: 'Life On The Rocks', https://vimeo.com/376345749

Source: ‘Life On The Rocks’ by George Pretty, https://vimeo.com/376345749

Quote Post: @lazenby

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'[T]he thicket of mind and flesh, the one on fire with the awareness of death, of your grave-bound life. [A]nd above all, the awareness of the crumbling, meaningless insubstantiality of life lived only by your own lights. [T]hat burden is what … relationship[s] [can help relieve]' ― @lazenby on Tumblr

Source: https://www.tumblr.com/lazenby/693408280158093312/how-do-i-stop-being-so-horny-for-him-when-weve

Quote Post: Irvin D. Yalom

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'A sense of fulfillment, a feeling that life has been well lived, mitigates against the terror of death.' ― Irvin D. Yalom

Quote Post: Ernest Becker

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'What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.' ― Ernest Becker

Quote Post: Irvin D. Yalom

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'If there are no rules, no grand designs, nothing we must do, then we are free to do as we choose … But we are unprepared; it is too much to bear, anxiety clamours for release, and, at both individual and social levels, we engage in a frenetic search to shield ourselves from freedom.' ― Irvin D. Yalom

Quote Post: Ernest Becker

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'The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it and so we must shrink from being fully alive.' ― Ernest Becker

Quote Post: Isaac Asimov

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'There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. This strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge".' ― Isaac Asimov

Quote Post: Irvin D. Yalom

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'Death acts as a catalyst that can move one from one state of being to a higher one: from a state of wondering about how things are to a state of wonderment that they are. An awareness of death shifts one away from trivial preoccupations and provides life with depth and poignancy and entirely different perspective.' ― Irvin D. Yalom

Quote Post: George Orwell

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'The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.' ― 1984 by George Orwell