"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think." - Aldous Huxley

“They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions." - Isaac Asimov

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"For if one should propose to all men a choice, bidding them select the best customs from all the customs that there are, each race of men, after examining them all, would select those of his own people; thus all think that their own customs are by far the best."
- Herodotus

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or says it.”
- Malcolm X

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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.” - James Baldwin

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
- Aldous Huxley

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"He has formed his mind on another's, and the imitative faculty is not itself productive. In other words, his knowledge has not in him arisen out of reason, and although, objectively considered, it is indeed knowledge due to reason, it is yet, in its subjective character, merely historical. He has grasped and kept; that is, he has learnt well, and is merely a plaster-cast of a living man." - Immanuel #Kant, #CritiqueOfPureReason #philosophy #philosophyquotes #criticalthinking #beyourself

"…One always finds one's burden again. But #Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile: Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
- Albert #Camus

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"Every #revolution begins not with fire, but with the quiet realization of injustice."

“The #philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it!”

- #KarlMarx

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"Those who do not move do not notice their chains."
- #RosaLuxemborg
"To remain silent in the face of lies is to become a servant of deception."
- #GeorgeOrwell

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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That's if you want to teach them to think.
- #BertrandRussell
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”

“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.”

- James Baldwin

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