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#1

“We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

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#2

“If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.”
― George Monbiot

tags: american-dream, bootstraps, hard-work, wealth

188 likes

#3

“Paths are made by walking”
― Franz Kafka

1218 likes

#4

“The impossible is the least that one can demand.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time: Mcdougal Littell Literature Connections

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#5

“The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.”
― Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

tags: profit, war

79 likes

#6

“Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power. ”
― Michael Foot

tags: power, reading

8 likes

#7

“I lack nothing. I only needed myself.”
― Franz Kafka

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#8

“There was something very special, but it wasn't inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

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#9

“All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

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#10

“As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

208 likes

#11

“Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.”
― Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

tags: violence, war

147 likes

#12

“Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.”
― Naomi Klein

tags: democracy, politics, voting

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#13

“What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

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#14

“The dirty secret of the neoliberal era is that these ideas were never defeated in a great battle of ideas, nor were they voted down in elections. They were shocked out of the way at key political junctures.”
― Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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#15

“No one makes themselves; we all make and unmake one another.”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World

11 likes

#16

“Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.”
― George Monbiot

tags: climate, ecology, environment, progress

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#17

“Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people.”
― George Monbiot, Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning

tags: 172, ethical-behaviour

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#18

“So if you don鈥檛 fit in; if you feel at odds with the world; if your identity is troubled and frayed; if you feel lost and ashamed, it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.”
― George Monbiot, How Did We Get into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature

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#19

“To seek enlightenment, intellectual or spiritual; to do good; to love and be loved; to create and to teach: these are the highest purposes of humankind. If there is meaning in life, it lies here.”
― George Monbiot, How Did We Get into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature

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#20

“Beware of anyone who describes a human being as something other than human being.”
― George Monbiot

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#21

“All nationhood is to some extent the artificial, the product of historical accident, the convenience of tyrants and the disengagement of colonists.”
― George Monbiot, The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order

7 likes

#22

“Those who seek to drag heaven down to earth are destined only to engineer a hell.”
― George Monbiot, Bring on the Apocalypse

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#23

“To be at peace with a troubled world: this is not a reasonable aim. It can be achieved only through a disavowal of what surrounds you. To be at peace with yourself within a troubled world: that, by contrast, is an honourable aspiration.”
― George Monbiot, How Did We Get into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature

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#24

“The most grotesque doctrines can look like common sense when embedded in a compelling narrative,”
― George Monbiot, Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis

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#25

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing

4970 likes

#26

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: beauty, wonder, young-at-heart, youth, youthfulness

3995 likes

#27

“All language is but a poor translation.”
― Franz Kafka

1870 likes

#28

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
― Franz Kafka

tags: julia-cameron, writers, writing

1502 likes

#29

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
― Franz Kafka

1330 likes

#30

“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn鈥檛 yet lived.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: death, dying, fear, franz, kafka, life

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